Honestly briar would be my pick in an ideal world, you don’t need an internet connection, just Bluetooth. Sure it has short range but its the starting point for decentralized messaging

Printers print very small dots on the sheet of paper you print so it canbe identified. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code

You love to see it, I genuinely smiled, probably not the normal reaction for most people but it makes me happy to see people use signal.

Okay great, if I live anywhere besides NYC, where’s my damn train for transport? Oh right its nonexistent. I’d love to take a train but the people that run this shithole say its too expensive and continue to pave more roads! Wow I love living here where my government continues to listen to big oil and destroy the planet in the process!!

I feel the same pains with Signal, I was very lucky in the sense that basically everyone I needed to communicate with would join, however a few members, mostly my brother which is known to be very much a stick in the mud wouldn’t join. While I love him to death, he can be very much a pain to bargain with. Maybe someday…