cherti on Nostr: because Signal's UX works and everyone else's is a serious step down. So Signal works ...

because Signal's UX works and everyone else's is a serious step down. So Signal works as a quick switch, everything else needs an interest in messenger tech on its own to be interesting (and then has worse privacy properties).

Or in other words: by experience getting people onto Signal works much much better than getting people onto anything else, and people go with the things that work.