This is why I say most people promising to be the hero with their centralized (or fake decentralized but still centralized) private messenger, especially ones you have to pay them to use should not be trusted and you should not use their product.

The way you become the hero is making something open source, and interoperable that can be hosted without you. Most centralized “privacy” products don’t do this, because them being the hero is a marketing tactic to seem altruistic. Which is why I’m inherently skeptical of projects like this, which aim to provide a solution while being the centralized gatekeepers of it.