The unofficial clients are part of the ecosystem. Centralizing the ecosystem means centralizing the back ends and the clients.
It's not orthogonal at all, and he's talked at length about how he views every client connected to their servers as under his control, and his dislike for unofficial clients, and his willingness to squash them if they get too big.
Before signal he was head of security at Twitter which has a similar 'squash unofficial clients if they get too big' policy.
> That's a trivial problem to solve: don't put Signal in your client name.
It's not orthogonal at all, and he's talked at length about how he views every client connected to their servers as under his control, and his dislike for unofficial clients, and his willingness to squash them if they get too big.
Before signal he was head of security at Twitter which has a similar 'squash unofficial clients if they get too big' policy.
> That's a trivial problem to solve: don't put Signal in your client name.
Signald has signal in it's client name.