Anyway, the first goal listed in this project was to move to European sovereign solutions so Zulip failed at the first hurdle.
Given the (lack of) speed of European bureaucracy, this is likely more a reaction to the US sanctioning the ICC than the more recent Greenland saber rattling, but you'll probably see more of this in the future.
Matrix has threads in a sense, but in this very thread the project lead is talking about how the new, ostensibly less buggy and more performant flagship client does not yet fully support them.
Element Creations Ltd and The Matrix.org Foundation CIC are UK companies.
Part of Russia is in Europe. Do you believe Russian products were considered?
It’s pretty obvious why the UK is considered more European than the US, and equally obvious too why Russia is not considered in that tent.
Pretending it’s not just so you can disagree with a comment adds nothing and is an example of why HN is so often a tedious place.