Matt on Nostr: I'd hoped that Signal would eventually start making good decisions but I'm getting ...

I'd hoped that Signal would eventually start making good decisions but I'm getting pretty tired of waiting. The username option was great, but way too late.

The privacy tradeoffs seemed okay because at least more people would adopt it and leave me better off than SMS. If they have, it's very few people I know. Most I converted didn't stick around long. I'm left using it with very few people who would probably use something better anyway.

I'm not seeing the point to it anymore. At least not if decentralization and security are values. It's basically better SMS for like four people.

But I also have little reason to invest effort into alternatives and their problems because virtually no one uses them anyway.

I'm bearish on private/secure communication. Something like Nostr gave me hope that we could someday see a secure/private base layer that many messaging applications could use, but I'm kind of bearish on that too. Primarily because I can't get people to care. I figure there's a culture problem more than anything. Very few people care enough. Or maybe it's me.