I love Signal and advocate it wherever possible. After following along on the GitHub tickets for this project, I&#x27;m happy to say thank you and congratulations on the beta release folks!<p>I&#x27;m probably about to ask this on the mailing list soon anyway, but in case there is any hidden knowledge here:<p>1. There was talk of server federation long ago. Is this still part of the long term plan?<p>2. There was talk of not using a phone number as a required identifier. Is this still part of the long term plan?