I haven’t, no.

Google started blocking them in some way. Even my self-hosted, entirely local-access only instance stopped working.

That the Blahaj admins are aussie? x3

*aussie.zone has entered the chat*

(did you also know our instance admins are Australian?)

I think the above poster is saying the ability to not be E2EE gives plausible deniability, and therefore is a feature, not a bug, in this instance.