Agreed it's better if the server is open source, but as long as the client is open source and created the private key to sign the messages and client side encrypts the messages, there's little need to worry other than the Metadata that goes with it. When the message goes out, one needs to assume any relay or packet sniffer will attempt to read it, including the Signal server. But ideally everything is open source so we can see what it's doing with the metadata rather than trusting it.

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their centralized server can be shut down with the stroke of a pen. even open sourcing signal server wont do much good either, because its not built to be decentralized. there are alternatives: https://simplex.chat

Agreed... One could install their own Signal server but that's not the future. I'm hoping Nostr can provide the same functionality soon so the migration can happen!

100% agree