Sorry I’ll let someone more knowledgeable answer about metadata, but signal does allow you to set a username and hide your phone number (so people add you with username instead if f number)

Are you using an app, or a website UI, if so the default one or one of the many others?

I’ve honestly found signal better than matrix.

Matrix is just not there yet in terms of features UI etc and is less private than signal because it collects way more metadata and stuff. I know the idea of federation is cool, but Signal works better for the privacy aspect.

I know someone who deliberately misanlysed data in a study that led to an entire patient group getting denied disability benefits because his study showed the condition is “curable” (it isn’t). (His study was funded by the government department paying disability benefits and private disability insurances, of course).

Did he get what he deserved? No, he got knighted by the Queen, is serving on the board of the NHS, and is an insider with the ruling class.

And was intimidated so bad by the legal system he killed himself.

That’s the most Swiss german thing ever. MSG galore.

As a swiss person “Hershey” is not choclate — it is a candy.

Agreed. Fuck amazon.

Nah they used a leeching client. No upload at all.