It’s nice, reliable and super quick to on board people since no sign up required. Technology seems interesting and novel, and it’s also transparent since it even shows the node path (in addition to being FOSS)

Do I trust it? No, but I don’t trust technology in general

I still don’t get their “privacy coin” based network. I think their luck would look a lot better if they use the existing tor network instead of lokinet.

My issue is effective impossibility to selfhost. XMPP, Simplex, even Matrix are very possible to run on your own, while a Session node would be insanely, arbitrarily expensive (requires around $1000 now, IIRC used to be more). A hobbyist like me and you would not want to pour this much into something they provide out of the goodness of their heart.

Seriously, if you have this much disposable money, you’d be better off running a few Tor nodes in various places).

Development is so slow it’s genuinely hard to believe.
Usability is rather lacking.
I’d say avoid it for the time being and I say that as former long time user.

Things I didn’t like about Session when I looked at it:

• Small group size limit
• Forward secrecy has been removed
• Isolated, app-specific onion network seems destined to forever be inferior to something like Tor, at least where privacy is concerned
• Immature codebase (time and dedication could solve this, of course)