You seem to be under the impression that market favors product quality or company performance which has been proven wrong over and over again.

Yes immich supports scanning external libraries but doesn’t store the processed data in the external library.

What’s your point?

You can’t just write three paragraphs (that contain half-truth, half-misinformation) about how Signal is the middleman and then conclude “you can assume there’s no middleman”. You can’t assume that. Signal is the middleman. There’s no arguments to be made against this. Signal doesn’t claim they aren’t the middleman either.

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If you want to be mainstream a) you can’t have spammers, scammers, and all the other scum of the earth and b) finding your contacts in the app HAVE TO be plug and play. Literally no normie will bother adding with usernames or whatever.

no middleman

Signal is not P2P

Use docker if you want peace of mind