@dalias for example see this answer https://fosstodon.org/@cwtch/114660341630424163
No other app correctly balances server and peer to peer (no metadata on server) yet. More clients could do that in future for sure, but right now Simplex Chat has a unique proposition and I don't want to give up on that value because I disagree with its founder. Being Free Software means we have more options than a simple boycott when a project we care about does things we don't agree with.