Comment by godelski
It's always the same complaints and they are trivial. Phone numbers, onboarding is hard because capatcha (wtf?!), signal is pwned because they got money from a government grant, moxie did some weekend hacking to integrate a cryptocurrency and so it's all shit.
I've never understood these. Even the non conspiracy stuff is just... nothing. Like do what? That's a roadblock for you? Then you shouldn't be on HN or be using a phone in the first place. Best to get off the internet all together.
I just don't understand why there's so much passionate hate. It feels like bots and trolls running a disinformation campaign but I actually think it's real people
Perfect is the enemy of good.
It's sad because the people who are doubting tradeoffs Signal deliberately made don't seem to realize that it's these tradeoffs that make Signal work. They also usually don't offer any good faith critique, answers or solutions.