Final discussions on Chat control 2.0. mandatory id verification is in.

This is why Nostr is so powerful.

Although not as good as @SimpleX Chat but it has a crucial feature - it's accessible for progressive web apps. One HTML file served and you can use decentralized infrastructure.

Because it's very possible that non compliant apps will be kicked out of the stores. And that unfortunately means zero network effect. Alt stores or apks are just not used enough to matter for chat apps.