Several countries have recently blocked Signal, leaving their residents without a trusted and safe place to communicate. To help in this situation, Signal provides a built-in censorship circumvention feature and also includes support for a simple TLS proxy that can bypass these blocks in many cir...
There is a better alternative in XMPP, which is an open source federated chap app. We even have a community on lemmy on this instance about it at !xmpp@slrpnk.net
Let’s not compare oranges to apples :P
Signal has a different threat model
xmpp is in another kind of “trust”