In my experience I have more iPhone chargers stolen from me than anything else. iPhone users are cheap, can’t even be bothered to change to non-default ringtones because they cost money 🤣

Sounds like he doesn’t have enough willing folks to keep up the charade

Telegram and signal are both central points of failure. Signal can be used with other servers, but the server address is hard coded in the app, so you have to deploy your own app. Matrix servers can keep a channel going even if the channel’s home server goes down. The more home servers there are, the more mirrors of public channels there will be.

Easiest way to get going: https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy