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Poland directs officials to ditch Signal in favor of 'secure' state-developed alternative
(www.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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Any ideas why it's always Matrix? Not even XMPP.
With not very performant servers and not very rich choice of clients, and still work in progress. And notably more fit for group chats rather than anything private and secure.
It's just Matrix being popular?
xmpp sucks balls for this scenario. there are incredible footguns in encrypted xmpp, it wasn't there from day one and mind you it's intended for non-nixos users. they have migrated from threema
Maybe. Or they got the feeling to use a low-effort open protocol, that isn’t xmpp. I mean, they considered open whisper, for example, they would have to invest in a custom client.
With matrix they slap a new sticker on the software and call it a day.