The whole point of these apps is socializing with people you know, so can you not see how useless of a suggestion it is to recommend Signal?

…you can socialize with all of the same people on Signal? So no.

Signal did itself no favors when it made the bone-headed move of removing SMS

Signal had absolutely never done anything remotely as “bone-headed” as collecting user data and using it to serve you ads.

And please don’t get into the "just convince everyone to use Signal’ argument because it’s completely unrealistic.

It’s not unrealistic. Most people are happy to.

almost all white dudes with the same generic “I’m not like other users” personality

Ah yeah, this seems like a problem for casual racism…