I'm not here to change your mind. I concur that signal is probably either a honeypot or otherwise state controlled with gag orders.

I'm confident that the nostr community will build something superior, fully distributed, all the double-ratchet stuff, the giftwrap stuff, to provide both 1-on-1 DMs and multi-user chat. We have the distributed framework, we have the momentum, and we have 90% of the ideas all worked out.