>The good answer: They can't verify the integrity of alternative clients and that they don't leak info The good answer isn't even a good argument. The client

>The good answer: They can't verify the integrity of alternative clients and that they don't leak info The good answer isn't even a good argument. The client is open source. People have forked it and used the Signal network. Signal asked them to stop and they did, but there is nothing stopping people from ignoring Signal's request in the future. This has nothing to do with federation. Signal could federate their network and still request everybody use the official client.