@its_a_me @bhhaskin Here's a very short and sweet rebuttal of soatok's XMPP hitpiece -
https://www.moparisthebest.com/against-silos-signal/
And here's a more detailed response from one of the OMEMO authors.
https://www.moparisthebest.com/tim-henkes-omemo-response.txt
The world would be a slightly better place if nobody ever shared soatok's drivel again. 
So...I'm from Delhi, India, and I love surveying for #OpenStreetMap. I'm a pretty active mapper and I've also done a professional field survey for Médecins Sans Frontières (a.k.a. Doctors Without Borders).
I also like teaching people. In the past one year, I've organized 15+ mapping parties and workshops, where I taught how to use OSM and how to contribute to it.
Could I #GetFediHired to do any of this full time? Open to relocating or traveling.
#MonoclesChat already had a whole bunch of really useful features even before v2, so check it out if you haven't already!
1. Swipe to reply, jump to replied-to message, preview of replied-to file, replying with a file (e.g. image, GIF, or video)
2. Banning a user offers to moderate all their recent messages. Excellent against spam.
3. Better multiple account UI. There's an option to show what account you're using for each chat, and you can set a UI color per account.
...to name only three.
New issues 
1. Many have pointed out aesthetic and readability issues in the Material You theme and the reactions UI.
2. The formatting toolbar is gone and I really miss it. I hope it will be back again soon!
3. There are noticeable stutters during typing and scrolling.
4. Tapping on a message is overloaded with three operations. Namely - selecting the thread a message is in, bringing up the emoji reactions menu, and responding to channel DMs.
(4/4)
Notable bugfixes
1. Cursor offset bug when editing in quotes.
2. Automatic switching to Ad-Hoc Commands pane when opening a chat (see setting "Jump to commands")
3. The call volume/Bluetooth microphone issue should be fixed. (Yet to test.)
(3/4)
Smaller improvements
1. Reinstatement of Conversations' chat state UI ("Alice has read up to this point")
2. Optional navigation sidebar to filter large chat lists.
3. Improved UI for channel invite recipients.
4. List of channel participants now includes outcasts, making Monocles even more useful for moderators.
5. The Contacts button has been reinstated in the optional bottom bar UI.
6. Settings menu is now similar to upstream #Conversations.
(2/4)
v2 of the #XMPP client #MonoclesChat made it to #FDroid the other day, and it's a big update!
Let's start with the shiny new features -
1. Material You theme, joining upstream #Conversations
2. Proper UI for emoji reactions, joining #Gajim and Conversations
3. Type @ to complete usernames, with shortcuts for mentioning all mods and mentioning all active participants. Type : to insert emojis.
4. Per-chat custom backgrounds.
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