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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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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
I suppose. NOSTR-based Marmot is being developed now, it seems more interesting for me than XMPP or Matrix, but it's still a new thing.
i doubt that any national comms authority will want to have anything in common with nostr. big point of this thing seems to be that it's on-prem (or at least in country) and with tightly controlled access
other countries already use matrix for similar purposes (france, germany, estonia) army had their own deployment on similar terms (on-prem, controlled registration)
You can have controlled registration and authorized relays with Nostr too.
But the part where deploying Matrix is simple is, I suppose, the main reason.