You are better off with an encrypted password store and a 2FA on a phone. You can back up both, easily, and they are both protected with fingerprints and/or global passwords.

People panic about face scan while the ongoing massive privacy breaches exist around online services and electronic devices. The amount of personal data that people pour into smartphones is enormous compared to using that vending machine. We need more GDPR.

I would come along a question that I was well educated on, and the top voted responses were all very clearly wrong, but sounded correct to someone who didn’t know better.

This can be said to https://news.ycombinator.com/ as well. I wonder how much of this is due to sock puppets and bots.

This tends to give more influence to people who spend more time on it and write more. And they are less likely to be subject matter experts.

Honest question: deleted comments might be just hidden and still up for sale, do people know if GDPR can come to the rescue here?

signal is designed not to trust the server

Unfortunately this is not enough. A malicious Signal server can mount a timing correlation attack and infer the social graph of an user. Having a centralized server makes it more difficult to mitigate such risk.

Not really. Signal is a walled garden but Matrix has a lot of a privacy issues.