Instead of dismissing Signal, I wonder if it could be changed to support a federated model.

Just a thought, because Signal has seen widespread adoption. Getting people to change their messenger is hard.

Lol a Google share link on the privacy forum. Anyone know where it goes? OP can you fix it?

Andy Yen, the founder and CEO of Proton, which developed one of the best VPN and encrypted email services around, suggested that the Signal AW-based outage shows that "an European alternative not run on Big Tech cloud will be necessary to safeguard strategic autonomy."

Not supporting the puppet government of said Big Tech could be another good strategic thing to do, don't you think Andy?

Matrix was developed by an Israeli company so hard pass on that. Signal looks like the best we got. https://hackea.org/notas/matrix.html

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication/#simplex-chat