Signal on F-droid Guardian Repo

[refalo@programming.dev]

I would hope the difference is that the f-droid version does not contain any proprietary code.

[sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today]

Thanks for doing this!

[andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Takes like 2 minutes

[0x520@slrpnk.net]

Is there anything specifically wrong with molly. It seems more locked down by default and is fully open source. Seems better to me.

[scoobford@lemmy.zip]

Iirc Molly in F-droid still using FCM and the google maps API. If you want Molly-Foss, you have to use Obtanium to pull APKs from their git releases.

Edit: I was wrong, you can get it off their F-Droid repository.

[quazaromega@lemy.lol]

You have quite a bit of background knowledge to know how to do that though, you should give yourself more credit!

[beautiful_orca@discuss.tchncs.de]

Molly-FOSS is awesome and it now has UnifiedPush support built-in!

Get it with Obtainium

[sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today]

Woah that's awesome to hear about the FOSS variant. I'll switch over to that version now

[transitinoir@slrpnk.net]

They do not ship updates as fast as official Signal client does. Do not use it unless you specifically need one of its security features

[andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Thanks, I mean I used to work as a Java developer before, and I'm quite interested in the Android platform, so I'm familiar with the SDK and build tools, and know how app signatures work

[andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Or via Accrescent

[andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Just make sure to set up UnifiedPush if you want to receive notifications while your Molly database is locked. I recommend the new Sunup UP distributor. I wanted to make a post about it in [email protected], but never got around to do it.

For Mollysocket, there are a few public instances. molly.adminforge.de is one of them. You can also set up your own on Fly.io, check out this repo: https://github.com/pcrockett/mollysocket-fly
Or you can obviously self-host it on any VPS or hardware that you own

[andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

You can also get it from Accrescent

[andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

No, it's not a special "FOSS" version, it's just the official binary distributed through the Guardian Project repo (as I have proven: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/16230276). If you want a FOSS variant, check out Signal-FOSS or Molly, they also offer a FOSS variant. You can either download it from their custom F-Droid repo, pull the APK from GitHub using Obtainium or get it from Accrescent.

[refalo@programming.dev]

Yikes. Thanks for the info.

[fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com]

You can also install directly from Signal via Obtainium. https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev/

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