If I understood correctly, the Signal protocol can be federated (and actually, I just learned that Signal was federated in the past with servers managed by Cyan

If I understood correctly, the Signal protocol can be federated (and actually, I just learned that Signal was federated in the past with servers managed by Cyanogenmod between 2013 and 2016), but Moxie does not believe federation is a good thing for Signal. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_%28software%29#Federation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_%28software%29#Federati...