We can do better than Signal
I'm a bit annoyed at "we can do better than X" when, you know what? Maybe we can't.<p>Yes, it's nice that you and I can install Element and deal with the finicky crypto handshake that for some reason always shows red for me because a friend opened the web UI and closed it before he completed the handshake and now we can never actually make that check go green, and it's nice that Mastodon is distributed but mastodon.host went down one day with all my toots without a word from the administrator, and yeah I know I should have picked a better host (though if you could predict that mastodon.host will die why didn't you tell me?), but my mom can't.<p>Users value their convenience, and security and privacy are inconvenient. Hell, we <i>started</i> decentralized and over email and newsgroups and personal websites and blogs and it's all Facebook Facebook Facebook now that the Eternal September came around.<p>If we could do better, we would have done better by now.