fiat only nothin - they classlessly foisted that mobilecoin scam on everybody and then moxy peaced the fuck out. They push so many useless updates (while making apk versions expire even before they're incompatible) that govcorp could easily mitm anybody they choose without anyone noticing. Now you can't even send a damn message with a new account without doxing your browser, ip, timezone to them and running scripts from a third party captcha provider (and whoever they've chosen to host their infrastructure).

They removed the ability to send and receive regular text messages, so now it's even harder to convince your contacts to bother installing signal, and despite supposedly today removing the need for phone numbers, you still can't get a signal account without associating one. Signal has been receiving CIA cut-out funding since long ago and the last few years have seen the most ridiculous moves ever since moxy left. I'm looking at YOU, profiles stored online and backed up with nothing but a goddam phone number and a PIN to protect it. And that's years after they ripped out on-device encryption.

The only thing it does right is encryption messages in flight, and it did that since day one. Essentially everything else about Signal is actually pretty fucked now.

Never heard of a honey trap, have ya?