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No not really. More a "its not the right tool for the job" signal is a messenger for private use, EU is working on / has a matrix based messenger that is more suited.
You still want encryption but also central user management etc. (Which hopefully also includes archiving...).
Sounds like a decentralized encrypted messaging platform is needed.
And when you need the highest trust, you just need to make sure you and the people you are talking to are all on trusted servers.
so governments would use their own gov.eu server or something, and only communicate sensitive info to others on that network so the info never leaves that server
Yes. Something they are working on based on Matrix ;)
Sounds great, I didn't know about that
https://www.euractiv.com/news/commission-trials-european-open-source-communications-software/
I read this article earlier this year. Lets see, what comes out of it!
Decentralized probably isn't desirable for this use case; self-hosted is. When designing something for that purpose based on a decentralized protocol like Matrix, it's probably desirable to mandate that the most sensitive conversations take place using a server with decentralization disabled and a client restricted to using only that server.