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~~most~~ some of the stuff on that list isn't even true (at least not anymore) lol
There are six bullet points. Which ones are no longer true?
The only one I know of is point 4, in that you can now choose not to share your phone number. But, IIUC, the app uses the dark pattern of forever nagging you to share it, hoping you’ll eventually accidentally click the wrong choice.
Point 2 is mostly not true, in that Molly exists and you can do reproducible builds with either implementation.
To be fair, from Signal's attitude it seems that Molly is tolerated rather than welcomed. And that it may be shut off if it gets big enough.