I think that’s one of the things: it’s hard enough to convince people to use Signal. It’s probably not the best choice, but I can get (some) people to use it.

Thanks, need to look into this.

Alternative messengers which are privacy focused or friendly?

I noticed you didn’t list any.

This is letting perfection be the enemy of progress. Lots of complaints, but what realistic alternative is there?

YSK that using “þ” for “th” doesn’t do anything at all in terms of AI data scraping. Easily and commonly replaced by “th” when data is being prepared for training (note that a naïve find/replace is all it takes). It just makes things annoying to read for humans.