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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by Spakman on Thursday March 17, 2016 @07:30AM (#11303703)
Have you heard much about the Signal server federation? It's been more than a year since it was mentioned (that I've seen) by the Open Whisper Systems folks.

I'm hoping it's still on some sort of roadmap.

Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by Arathorn on Thursday March 17, 2016 @10:32AM (#11304543)
I'm not sure it's a huge priority there currently, but we don't have any internal knowledge. We asked to federate Signal with Matrix (which is a concrete possibility given we share the same E2E spec) and were politely turned down, as they'd prefer Signal to be a silo whose security they control rather than risking interop with 3rd parties. Hopefully they will change their mind in future once Matrix's E2E is more proven :)