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Their client software is open source and also on F-Droid and Flathub.
Server-side is not FOSS.
Even if it was open source, how would we know they were really running what they shared?
Signal is still a US-based entity, so I'm hesitant to recommend them to anyone
I agree, we need something with the security level of signal and with the hability to federate. Or even better, make it P2P.
This is basically Matrix.org.
How does Session fair?
That's the problem with every open source application or software, actually.