the server code being not federated means you effectively can’t (or won’t) self host.

Agreed. I hope they change their minds on this, although I’m not holding my breath.

Yeah but you could do that as verification and an additional means to find users, not the primary user ID. Threema has generated IDs, Matrix has usernames, Telegram has usernames. Why can’t Signal?

Agree. The devs have stated that this is coming this year. We’ll see if they can roll it out before the year ends.

Yeah, they let it get out of sync for a while

Why, though?

Honestly, don’t know and don’t care. I suspect because they didn’t want to yet make public their crypto stuff, but I’m not going to assume malice here without evidence.

Good question. Signal obviously didn’t ask about it and wants to become another WeChat/QQ clone where you can pay with your messaging application and circumvent taxes.

Whatsapp also lets you pay - although I believe its only in India. Telegram also attempted to include crypto. Why wouldn’t we want a private way to pay instead of letting Facebook/Google/etc, take over? I fully support them making sending money easier and more private.

I’d agree if you’d add “one of” between “currently” and “the”.

I’ll agree that it’s “one of” the best. Which one would you throw in your top 3?