Linking to their post to say it’s a little bit more complicated that “it isn’t secure” https://drewdevault.com/2018/08/08/Signal.html

Wait till you hear where the Tor money comes from. Funding is not a direct cause of issues.

And ? Obviously it’s not the for-profit structure which would benefit from donations. VC money is one way of financing things (which has the cash burn rate issue), public money and donations is another, why would changing from one model to another be something bad?

This post is by the Matrix foundation, not Element.

Hyperbola has a strange philosophy about a lot of packages: https://web.archive.org/web/20240124002440/https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:incompatible_packages

Just use an app like Authenticator importing the Aegis export file.

Unfortunately Silence has been unmaintained for years now, so I wouldn’t recommend it.