The Economist is a British newspaper. No Americans here.

If we’re going to have the Brave New World, at least let me have my soma and orgy-porgies. This version sucks.

Works great here, and my users are very happy with it. Not disputing your experience, just saying it’s not universal.

Could be a compatibility issue with amazon’s android fork? I have only used the android client on google pixel, samsung phones and AOSP builds.

My guess is signal leaving sweden means they would block sign-ups from swedish phone numbers. It would be very effective as most people won’t bother jumping through hoops to get a number from a different country.