Signal — the privacy chat app favored by the world's leading crypto experts — is trending again. In the wake of Twitter and Facebook's MAGA Maidan Internet purge (which was followed by Facebook's announcement that it was gonna start siphoning data off its WhatsApp property), Signal shot up to being the top downloaded messenger app on the planet.

The New York Times is writing about it. Edward Snowden is tweeting about it, telling his fans that Signal is the only reason he's able to stay alive (and not the fact that he's being protected round-the-clock by Russia's security apparatus.) Hell, Even Elon Musk is out there telling people to go Signal. So many people are flooding the app that it's been crashing.

Use Signal

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 7, 2021