Remember how everyone jumped on Google when they promised to do no evil? Now they're one of the most abundant mass surveillance companies in the world and we can't move away because they're too big to fail.

Signal is one sale away from being evil too. They might not do it but we've been conned so many times that I will only take technical guarantees, not promises that can be broken.

And really, lots of progress is made in real open communications. Matrix is getting more mature by the day. NATO uses it, the French government and several others. And the good thing is, you can always run your own server and connect to the hive. Nobody can tell you what to do, nobody can tell you to surveil your users like the EU is planning to do.

We need something truly open. Not a WhatsApp light.