Is anyone here aware of some alternatives to mentioned instant messaging applications ? Alot of people keep mentioning Signal , however since it is US based I am not going to entertain it as a possibility.

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    7 hours ago

    It’s serverless though, right?

    no, and in fact the cost of running it is really high because the server infrastructure they need to pay, they even say it themselves “Signal is expensive” https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

    it would be possible just to fork and use a “European” version of it

    in theory yes, in practice no one has done it, and then you should not use Signal but the european fork which will not be compatible/federated with signal