From beta testers, in their words. Quoted with permission; first names or handles only — we would not know a surname if we wanted one.
"I set it up in under a minute and it never asked for my number. That alone put it ahead of everything else on my phone."
"The safety number includes the post-quantum keys. I checked. That is the level of detail I want from a messenger."
"Echoes feel like the early web — topics, not people. I follow a cricket Echo and a Kannada literature Echo and nobody knows it is me."
"Calls just connect, even on the office network that blocks everything. Whatever they are doing with port 443, keep doing it."
"I bought Pro and the receipt has no idea who I am. I did not know that was possible."
"The Mac app is the first desktop messenger I have used that does not need my phone to be alive."