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Its definitely not irrelevant that signal was funded and may still be funded by the US government. That no one seems to dispute that, and think that there's no conflict of interest between the worlds biggest abuser of digital privacy funding the supposedly secure apps they use every day, is boggling to me.
It's not irrelevant but it's not proof of anything either, and does not justify the clickbait title...
Many organisations everywhere in the world receive government funding but it doesn't mean that they're intelligence agencies' honeypots. Matrix has received contributions from the French and German government, yet that doesn't mean it's a government op.
One difference is that matrix is self hostable, while signal isn't. And signal only updates their server source code when they received a massive backlash for not updating it in over a year. https://community.signalusers.org/t/where-is-new-signal-server-code-why-not-share-signal/15068/9
The foss community hates them for good reason.
You can indeed self-host your own Signal server, it's just that the effort required to do so is significant and it doesn't federate. Far easier to just use XMPP/Matrix.