The Android tablet makes it a deal-breaker. You cannot use a Signal account from multiple Android or iOS devices without using a 3rd-party client like Molly.
I think you answered your own question. To expect them to do anything other than what will increase their wealth is naïve. Anything that seemed like a "moral" thing that they did in the past simply happened to be more convenient.
They can be "rattled", but if this cross-pressure isn't enough for them to reject the entire Republican Party and any Democrat that still wants ICE around, it doesn't matter. It's far enough from November that the effects of this will have evaporated by the time they cast their votes, so I don't have any confidence that electoral politics will fix this. I'm happy to be proven wrong.
Also, it’s illegal to send encrypted messages over mestastic.
In the US at least, this is almost never true. It is only true for devices set up as licensed HAM radios. Normal Meshtastic devices fall under the transmit power threshold to be subject to 47 CFR 97.313(j)
the "only technologically feasible solution" that allows capitalists to keep doing what they're doing. We already have the technology we need to implement the solutions that will get us 90+% of the way there; countries just have to use it...
It's not like I'm going to boycott them, but it's important to always push because they CAN do better. Any "risk" that they are not handling, they are offloading to the workers themselves. It doesn't just disappear. I'm not saying they should be only hiring full-time devs at competitive silicon valley salaries, but part time on a living wage with worker protections is an important bar to clear for all entities that seek paid labor.
That was awesome