So is there a signal alternative that is fully open source and not under control of one single company?
Bett as I understand it, it's still from a company and still locked to the whims of a CEO and I'm done with that.
What's the best alternative?
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Matrix as a protocol, and the official client is Element.
I'm baffled Signal didn't support transferring chats... I thought it was supposed to be easier than Matrix
Unfortunately it seems like some people think that that is neutral.
Finally I can transfer my one and only chat to my PC
I know right. I wish more people used it. It's nice and simple. No fuss in the way. And especially now with chat transfers. Should be Gucci.
Thanks, I love Signal, but can we get Android tablet linking?
Molly has it.
What's Molly in this context?
in this context? haha
See the other response to justify that part, heh.
A good time 🌚
That's why "in this context"!
A hardened Signal fork that works with Signal's servers and adds features I like that Signal doesn't support.
I heard signal dislikes forks using its server, did molly get approval to do so, or is this based on generosity until signal can ban them?
I heard that too...1ish years ago and Molly still seems to work okay. I would assume by now that Signal knows they exist, so hopefully they'll keep playing nice.
TIL. Thank you!
This may be out of date, since it's been a while since I last tested this, but: will Signal on desktop still store media in an easily accessible folder where the only security is the use of random strings to identify each individual media file with the file type extension deleted? So, for example, if you've had the desktop Signal client synced with your account for a period of time and have running conversations that include sensitive media, that media can be accessed and viewed without even opening the desktop app (which also, last I tested it, lacks most of the locking/security mechanisms found in the phone versions of Signal).
Most media viewers can open the files without the need for adding the file extension to the end of the filename, albeit you would be browsing the files in a pseudorandom fashion if you didn't try to sort by date or size.
It is quite a bit out of date luckily. Signal-Desktop already stores data encrypted for quite a while. However it used to store the decryption key right alongside it. Recently (a few month ago) Signal switched to storing the key within the systems keystore, greatly improving security. Also causing a flood of users complaining that the can't just copy their .config to a new desktop and retain their chat history. This may have prompted the release of this new feature :)
Good to know!
😂and 98% do upvote this old news, it is crazy
Holy shit no way, basic functionality needed at absolutely all times, in my signal? More likely than you think!
Kudos to the Devs! Maybe time to give this app another shot!
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I’m still waiting for the day that I can make a full backup of my chats and save it on an external hard drive so that I won’t lose all of my message history when I lose my phone.
I still wait for an option to officially use signal without having to have a proprietary operating system running 😆🥲
And I am waiting for a way to use Signal without it ever touching a smartphone) Right now I have a Graphene phone so I can trust it (so Molly works), but before that my phone (like most phones) did not support any degoogled OS. While the laptop (like most laptops can) was running Linux easily. Yet, you have to either use an Android VM or a frustrating command-line client to register!
You can already do it. I have Signal create daily backups, sync it to my NAS using Syncthing with versioning enabled.
Oh fucking shit, setting this up today
Yeah I've been doing this
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