MashBoilPitch

But Signal is bad, an op-ed by one of Lemmy's founders: https://dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html#conclusions

I certainly agree there is cause for caution, as one should always exercise where trust is placed in such matters. But there are leaps of bad logic in that writeup, and the dog pile of FUD swirling around Signal feels nearly orchestrated.

Yup. There is only so many ways to say the shit far outweighs the roses. There's lots of hand wringing because a slim minority of thoughtful posts come from an otherwise pool of bile. You can support lgbtq folks and still be an asshole, as repeatedly proven by that community. The feature to block the crypto neofacist tanker incel hexturds cannot arrive fast enough.