In a world where one's privacy is increasingly at risk and being exploited by the big social media companies couple with falling victim censorship action. Masses are beginning to wake up and opting for privacy inclined Apps.
I got to know about Signal messaging App just over two weeks ago from a tweet by Andreas Antonopoulos advising delete WhatsApp and use Signal. I now have Signal App on my phone with just one contact and that contact is a weird crypto enthusiast that value privacy and against censorship like myself 
Sadly not only are our data being exploited by the Facebooks and co, governments are determined to monitor our day to day activities as well since most of our time or free time is spent of social media Apps.
Ever since Signal simultaneously hit #1 on the š®š· Play Store and #1 on the š®š· government's block list, we've been working around š®š· censorship.
ā Signal (
Unable to stop registration, the IR censors are now dropping all Signal traffic.
Iranian people deserve privacy. We haven't given up.) January 25, 2021
It is no surprise the extent at which governments can go in taking your right away from you. Shutting down internet for days, blocking your favorite Apps, placing you on lockdown, (the lockdown gets to me you have no idea!)
I keep checking what technology is Signal built on but haven't found anything that mentioned blockchain but it states on its website;
QuoteState-of-the-art end-to-end encryption (powered by the open source Signal Protocol)
signal.org
With the less amount of people waking up to censorship attack and realizing their privacy is being exploited, I think the number of people seeking alternative decentralized and privacy focused Apps will increase over time.
It might take one to be victimize or see someone close to you before the reality sinks in but until then for us the early adopters lets keep leaving the trail.
We owe it to ourselves to make Hive great
