I think its mostly because of lurkers, but also, I first joined on midwest.social then something broke the feed and caused a bunch of federation issues. Now this is my “alt” but I can’t see content from piracy@dbzero or whatever now

It took me until the 3rd paragraph to realize this was cap

My wife and I use SimpleX. I don’t know why its not discussed more. Perfect use case for attending protests and such. Get swept up in illegal arrests and they want you to open the app? Enter the self-destruct code. It opens the app normally while destroying any info it contained so they would be none the wiser. It just looks like an empty chat.