@EmZaid
On the upside, now that people have to have a separate app for private conversations, I just ask them all to element/synapse servers instead. Decentralize (o:

As a bonus because not all my contacts can afford a phone number, it has a much lower barrier to use it and you can create an account without any other credentials/linking it to anything else.

It sure was convenient the way Signal was before though. I did accidentally send unencrypted messages sometimes though too *shrug*