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or federated server
Would be very cool to be able to host a Signal homeserver.
https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ here is Moxi's take on that (former Signal CEO).
So I don't think it's happening.
they won't do that.
Matrix tried for quite a while to get interoperability, but signal is just too paranoid about distributed hosting or interoperability of their software/protocol. it's quite annoying
And yet simplex exists.
https://simplex.chat/
Wait, simplex isn't paid?
No, it's totally free and open source, and you can host it on your own server if you wish.