I feel like this comment, and others like it, start from a baseline misunderstanding of Signal’s goal, and extrapolate from there into a narrative where the Signal team is plotting the downfall of all that’s good and right.
Signal has been pretty clear that their goal is to create a messaging platform that provides security against the threat model faced by the vast majority of humans in the world, in a form factor that makes it effortless for those people to use it for their communications.
Specific technical details, like federation, are not their goal, and their assessment is that the side effects of federation actively harm their goal. You’re welcome to disagree about whether it’s possible to federate and still solve the problem they’re targeting, but it’s not clear to me why they’d be expected to target their “war chest” at solving something that they’ve always acknowledged is not their actual goal, based on message board commenters demanding they do so.
Signal has been pretty clear that their goal is to create a messaging platform that provides security against the threat model faced by the vast majority of humans in the world, in a form factor that makes it effortless for those people to use it for their communications.
Specific technical details, like federation, are not their goal, and their assessment is that the side effects of federation actively harm their goal. You’re welcome to disagree about whether it’s possible to federate and still solve the problem they’re targeting, but it’s not clear to me why they’d be expected to target their “war chest” at solving something that they’ve always acknowledged is not their actual goal, based on message board commenters demanding they do so.