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is signal part of the fediverse?
Let me be the idiot who answers your rhetorical question: No, Signal is centralised AF.
The server software was able to federate but Moxie Marlinspike in his walled-garden wisdom decided it "degraded the user experience" (ie. hindered him onboarding a userbase to his shitty cryptocurrency). https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issuecomment-217339450