rate my setup
I rate it "4 open blank terminal windows".
it's never been end-to-end encrypted, either, and I don't think this rewrite is going to be.
oh, and your account gets its unique number, that you need to give away to people in order to contact them, which limits the discoverability among your phone contacts, which you get with Whatsapp or Signal. it basically used to be Poland's local ICQ equivalent.
and its default message sound was supreme
I've been using DDG's solution with Bitwarden generator and I like it a lot. I'm just not good at writing down what service I use the email with, and I use it quite a lot with websites that require an email address without creating an account, so I wish there was some kind of a magic solution that did it for me, heh. luckily I'm getting virtually zero spam in my inbox, so I'm yet to need to track down who had sold my data to the spammer.
perhaps the Bazzite community will be more capable to help you troubleshoot it? https://universal-blue.discourse.group/c/bazzite/5