Can you create an account without a phone number? Last time i checked this wasn't possible and is everything else than "Privacy-first Design" or as you said "Every feature and code for Signal messenger is designed on collecting as little (or no) data as possible". Here in Germany at least it's not possible to register a new mobile phone number without your identity connected to it.

Session, and I believe Briar, allow this.

I use Element with selfhosted Matrix at the backend which also allows that

We recently had to do a Signal bot and for an elegant codebase it sure is lacking in terms of libraries. Not to mention the license being as aggressive as possible to prevent any clients of any kind.

Interesting. What were your thoughts on https://gitlab.com/signald/signald and https://signald.org/articles/clients?

quite happy and impressed with signal too. realllyyyy cheering for them to become the default messaging app. i still use whatsapp heaps but would love to switch over

yes! they take donations too at https://www.signal.org/donate/

yes!