This is fake news.

I don’t personally want any affiliation with Microsoft, someone please do this, I’ve searched the issues and there are no opening issues about this one.

Self-host yourself is the safest option, I do.

SearXNG, there’s nothing much else to say.

Liftoff’s UI is pretty terrible but the functionality and the snappyness of it is absolutely the strong point.

To keep posts, comments is unlikely to happen. Transferring the sub list and bookmarks or just exporting them should be in the near future, at least with 3rd party apps.

Always better off with SearXNG

Signal is okay as much as privacy is concerned, but it doesn’t solve all the problems with communications in real world. For instance its centralized design means it can be easily blocked, a private Matrix server on the other hand will not even make it on the radar.