The hook that keeps me dangling is 'network effect'.

It's hard to no be present where I am often contacted. It's even harder convincing normies to try something like session. 

Getting people to even think about Signal when they're using WhatsApp was hard enough. 

 I've been testing out Element with my own server. It seems to work pretty well and the cross-device sync is super handy. Notifications are a little hit or miss on android though. My wife and I have tried messaging on it for a few weeks now and it has been pretty great.