Well my approach is to sign up and use Lemmy over Tor with throwaway email (Onionmail)
Wildly_Utilize
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BFU (before first unlock) vs AFU (After first unlock)
Basically encrypted vs decrypted
Mullvad VPN has DAITA which does something similar but more legit
I thought Pegasus was 0 click by simply recieving an SMS message
No JavaScript sites on onionland
Most are staying, but there's a growing shift to simplex among privacy/anon focused people
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Signal uses closed source and centralized servers to deliver all your messages. Some people don't like their communications being dependant on a corporations computer, and would rather maximize data sovereignty when possible.
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phone number requrement is unacceptable to some people
If SimpleX makes bad choices it can be forked and self hosted, whereas we would be locked in with signal and at the compamys whims
It's OK to stay on signal but to say no one is switching is untrue.
It was pretty small numbers before (darknet) but a youtuber called Mental outlaw did a video on it recently and now it's exploded into the more mainstream privacy communities.
It isn't perfect, and signal has a lot of perks but there's no need to literally ignore new developments
Its a LOT more anonymous, not slightly.
For the overwhelming majority of users phone number alone = no anonymity, then there's the fact you're relying on a corporation to store all your messages on their closed source centralized server...
If you want privacy you either do graphene on a pixel (cake and eat it too), or linux phone (huge downgrade in usability and reliability)
Stock Android is not acceptable, it's even worse than Apple.
ungoogled chromium removes this
when did it stop being useful?
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Lemmy world uses cloudflare, privacy respecting instances would never block tor
Mander.xyz even has an .onion hidden service