Debian Distrobox for non-fedora-native apps?

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Has anyone here gotten Distrobox to properly get a debian arm or ubuntu arm container up and running? Most of what I do can be done in Fedora, but I would prefer to also have apps like signal and discord installed. I’ve mostly given up on discord, as I haven’t had any success in getting an arm-native nor third party version of the client running on Asahi thus far.

Regarding Signal, I haven’t done much research yet. Is there an arm build available for Debian or Ubuntu if I were to create a distrobox? Per the asciinema recording of my terminal below, I haven’t had any luck in getting arch nor debian running in distrobox yet.
https://asciinema.org/a/4g42PeoSqTn0m4wG3ZEPNSuvY

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Looks like Debian has official arm64 Docker images: arm64v8/debian - Docker Image

You should be able to use that with Distrobox.

And in fact, because debian - Official Image | Docker Hub is multi-arch, you can just use the normal tags.

So e.g.:

distrobox create --name debian-stable --image docker.io/library/debian:stable
distrobox enter debian-stable

Works for me on Fedora Asahi Remix 42.

These other architectures are included under the non-prefixed images via OCI “image indexes”), such that, for example, docker run hello-world should run as-is on all supported platforms.