@Hyolobrika

They still have your phone number on file and will release it and any associated information upon request from authorities. I believe they make such requests public somewhere on their website, but given they're mainly funded by CIA cutouts, I'm not sure I trust it/them regardless of any such security theatre. As to the phone companies that provide burner VOIP numbers, having tried those with a variety of 2FA systems, they're usually blocked. I'm sure there're ways around it, but based on the architecture and number of hoops needed to safeguard anonymity/privacy just to create an account, I instinctively distrust them and would not support their service by using it or encouraging others to do so.

On the other hand, I just tried out "reticulum" which is a mesh networking app (written in python) that has double-ratchet encryption baked in (cannot be circumvented), functions over I2P, a variety of wireless protocols (eg. LoRaWAN), ethernet, etc, including simultaneously/redundantly. You can setup private networks. It's application agnostic (you can write clients to do whatever you dream up). 100% p2p, with replication nodes for message forwarding. There's no user registration. In fact out of the box, all accounts are configured as "Anonymous" unless you give it a name explicitly. The only ID being a cryptographic hash that is trivially generated and disposable. The whole thing is FLOSS from top to bottom. Tmk atm there're no deep state ties. You can even host simple web-pages/applications on it using nomadnetwork, etc. There're already a variety of cross-platform clients for chatting (including a/v), webhosting, file sharing, etc, though mostly in BETA dev. It's inherently designed to handle low-bandwidth unstable connections.

Compared to Signal or any other nominally e2ee stuff out there (possibly excepting SimpleX ... tbd), it is light years ahead in architecture and ethos. Reminds me of what the internet was like back in the early days, except better secured. Albeit, perhaps a bit beyond the "gramma" user for now, but that just means she'll need her teenaged grandchild to spend the 10-30 mins to set it up for her initially and give a quick end-user howto. So, as far as Signal goes.... 👎👎 Why go backwards when there's already a much better way forward.