Seriously. I’m getting really sick of OPs take, it is a fundamentally flawed and ignorant understanding of what privacy and anonymity are.

If I’m at work and I need to speak to someone in private, we can go in a room and close the door. That’s a PRIVATE conversation. It doesn’t mean that nobody heard me say “hey Bob, can I talk to you for a minute?” It doesn’t mean nobody saw us go in there and shut the door. The conversation is still private.

It’s NOT private if someone is listening up against the door, or if there’s a recording device in the room (in our analogy most messenger services and protocols fit here).

Signal IS PRIVATE CONVERSATION. But there’s metadata about who is talking to whom, and it’s NOT anonymous for the reasons OP pointed out, even if OP is a rabble rousing idiot.

Signal is private, free, accessible, and has a good feature set. Their foundation is a nonprofit with ethical motives, and it’s widely adopted worldwide because it fills a very real, very necessary niche.

Signal is NOT anonymous. If you want to be anonymous online you’ve got a lot, possibly an insurmountable amount, of work to do. Signal should not be a part of that because it’s NOT anonymous.

Quit strawmanning a good thing because it’s not what you’re looking for.