Signal isn't controversy free, either. The source code is published, but others in the free software community (specifically the F-droid opensource app store) refused to endorse it, because they couldn't get the published source code to actually compile. Open source is no good if the only option is to trust pre-compiled binaries from the same people that publish code that won't compile, this kind of implies their compiled binaries are using different code to that which is published.



Tox is the most advanced thing right now at least. Kind of surprising that it's taken so long for a serverless p2p messenging platform to be developed. Added bonus: Tox can beat censorship that's not Russian too