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According to this post, Signal can federate, but chooses not to. In another post, it's said that Matrix is based off Signal.
So, one way to look at it announcement is "you will be able send Signal/Matrix messages from your fediverse instance of choice", I believe
Kind of surreal seeing my own Mastodon post linked, damn.
If you're curious about the details I refer to, there's an indepth article on lwn.net regarding this from 2016 here: https://lwn.net/Articles/687294/
That article was very informative, thanks!