Basically, you're surprised that people will pay money for someone else to host and run a service for them instead of hosting it themselves?

I suspect that will happen after election day (3 days from now).

TBH these days it's all crypto

Yeah, but repeated "This message cannot be decrypted" breaks its primary function as a chat app.

It's getting harder and harder to disable their broken end to end encryption by default too.

Yakuake also has that