OK, so CryEngine and it’s open source descendant O3DE already exists

Two of the three parties have set up their own Mastodon instances years ago (grüne.social and social.linksfraktion.de respectively).

The Left is also present at @dielinke@mastodon.social

And even high ranking SPD politicians are active on the Fediverse (@eskensaskia@mastodon.social for example)

They are going to be present on closed platforms, because like it or not (and for the record I don’t) that’s where a large part of voters is, but the Fediverse plays an active part in their social media strategies.

I’m fairly sure it can, but that’s default behaviour over there, similar to how Mastodon and X/Twitter work.

She’s posting from Friendica. Ignore the @mention, that’s just how that platform works

What do you mean “planned successor”?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(programming_language)

Sure, technically it’s a replacement for a bunch of services. But from a institutional perspective you wouldn’t use Signal in the first place, just like you wouldn’t use WhatsApp. You want closed (as in no open participation not as closed source) systems where only employees can send messages in the first place. Traditionally you would use Slack or MS Teams for that.

That doesn’t mean that your employees wouldn’t use WhatsApp or Signal anyway and having a convenient alternative might curb that use.

1. A lot of the solutions are based on standards that already include E2E. The French and German platforms for example are just rebranded Matrix.
2. the platforms are not intended for civilian communication. The video is a bit misleading when it talks about WhatsApp alternatives. A more accurate description would be “Slack alternative”: A communications platform for government workers to message each other, so that potentially sensitive data isn’t stored on 3rd party servers.