It’s just a country code like others mention. Also I imagine it doubles as the “Marxist-Leninist” acronym in some people’s eyes given the developers’ ideology.
Signal as it’s easy to convince others to use it, with a slick onboarding and WhatsApp feel. Matrix is the true future for messaging ofc, but it’s new user experience isn’t friendly enough for mass adoption yet
I believe federation is on my default. It only requires a user from either instance to interact with the other first.
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