I think the real trick is to stop trying to cater for 'regular' people, let them deal with the repercussions of their choices.

Do you only ever message people in your bubble? If not, the choices of ”regular people“ will inevitably also affect you.

If no "regular" people use these, then anyone who does sticks out like a sore thumb. One of the main reasons I'm using products like this is to support journalists, whistleblowers, lawyers, etc. (Who also are "regular" people in relevant ways.)

A messenger is useless if people don't use it.

No idea why you would get downvoted for stating the obvious

I don't understand why people have such an issue running multiple messaging clients on the same phone. I've managed to move a large chunk of my WhatsApp friends onto signal, then block in WhatsApp to enforce the signal usage. Of course there are holdouts.

> I don't understand why people have such an issue running multiple messaging clients on the same phone.

Simple: there's a messenger everyone is on. WhatsApp. There is no need to install anything else.

One of my friends who studied something IT related is adamant about having only one messenger installed. It's too complicated having 2-3 and not all contacts use either of the alternatives to WhatsApp.

Here in Sweden also everyone have multiple messengers installed due to no messenger ever reaching a critical mass. Both MSN Messenger and Skype were close at some point but neither succeeded.