“I think it’s still worth it to not have facebook all up in my business, but the end user experience is shit.”
I appreciate deeply what signal offers, bit that does not blind me to its shortcomings. It could allow flexibility in the area of media handling and that would be a big plus, imho. Or perhaps there is something in the codebase that genuinely makes that a huge pain to implement.
I use disappearing messages a lot more now, and my partner and i have a shared syncthing folder to share photos. And as you hint, there’s always going to be a tradeoff of security against convenience.