@matt Honestly, that's what I expect here to happen as well. Friction is a powerful force, and the friction of staying with whatsapp is an order of magnitude smaller than the friction of using that new app that matt installed on my phone and that looks and functions exactly like whatsapp, but worse.

Also, not to forget, we are here in our little techie bubble where we care about privacy and encryption and data sovereignty, but who else does? The majority of people don't even know what metadata are, much less why it shouldn't end up in the hands of big corporations, and even if you explained it to them they don't understand or simply don't care. I had a lot of discussions about this that just made me want to pull my hair out (thankfully I'm already bald ;) )

So yes, this would probably never be more than me spending a lot of time setting something up that will end up going unused. Then again, if it's fun and I can learn something, why not just do it anyway ;)