My solution is to avoid services that are anti-lurker.

If im not able to view it without logging in, i just accept it, not watch it, and move on with my life.

I just personally saved 44 billion dollars by not buying twitter!

Its perfect for a small VPS. Been using it for years.

I do occasionally get places where my email simply will not send to them, even though it follows every email standard properly and isnt blacklisted. For those rare occasions, ill use a third party email address to send, which then forwards everything to my main email.

Being critical is good, and we should always hold them accountable for our security. We can look to third party audits for help with that.

https://community.signalusers.org/t/overview-of-third-party-security-audits/13243

This entire article is guessing at hypothetical backdoors. Its like saying that AES is backdoored because the US government chose it as the standard defacto symmetrical encryption.

There is no proof that Signal has done anything nefarious at all.