Signal will finally let you transfer your encrypted chat history to new linked devices

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Finally I can transfer my one and only chat to my PC

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Thanks, I love Signal, but can we get Android tablet linking?

Molly has it.

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This is wonderful, thank you so much!

I’ve been holding off from switching to Android (and getting a GrapheneOS x Pixel phone) because I have 5 years’ worth of messages on Signal on my iPhone… I’ll look into this method for sure

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As far as I know it's just one dude. I used it for Reddit then came to Lemmy. Sync for Lemmy appeared and I was pumped.

Yeah it's got its problems, but it's my favorite way to go.

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That's always the hard part.

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Maybe OP is following said blog and got their info from there, then thought that it might be worth sharing?

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SimpleX is not a Signal fork. It is it's own protocol, service and app. It just utilizes Signal protocol for encryption like every good e2e encrypted messenger out there.

SimpleX allows anonymous identity, federation between servers and still a good UX.

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I'm not harping on OP. If they thought it was worth sharing, great.

The people whom I take umbrage with are those who make a blog post that is reporting on a public announcement (E.g. Signal's news post on their website) without linking to said announcement.

You're not talking about world events with your reporter on the scene - your entire post is literally "someone else posted something to the internet!"; linking to it is the bare minimum required, if you ask me.

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Yeah. For me, Signal's security benefits are counteracted by various other usability issues. Such as not being feature-complete on desktop and not even allowing registration there without workarounds - given that phones are very privacy-invasive by default and far from all can have a privacy-respecting OS installed (while Linux works on pretty much any random computer). Or even on mobile - pushing the user towards Google download with dark patterns, not being on F-Droid, or (at least in my experience) the official app not working at all on my Graphene device (Molly worked perfectly though). Also, from what I've seen, even if you don't mind losing connectivity with other users and would only converse with people on your server anyway (like how I do with my family on XMPP), selfhosting Signal is really hard compared to XMPP, Simplex or even Matrix, even requiring modifying the client app.

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What's Molly in this context?

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https://molly.im/

A hardened Signal fork that works with Signal's servers and adds features I like that Signal doesn't support.

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TIL. Thank you!

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I feel personally attacked.

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the official app not working at all on my Graphene device

FWIW, I just installed Graphene on a Pixel 8a yesterday, downloaded the Signal apk from their website, and haven't had any issues with it so far. I also learned that you can get it through Fdroid if you add the Guardian Project repository.

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I got a few people to switch from SMS to Signal because they're on iPhones, I'm on Android, and they love sending me videos that end up totally unwatchable via MMS.

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IDK if this has been fixed, but this summer I was unable to register - it was stuck in a loop warning about lacking Google services (even though it is supposed to work without them, so maybe a coincidence).

Also didn't know about Guardian's repo having it, that's awesome!

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I think you might be a bit lost

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No, I don't do video calls personally other than at work.

But the vast majority of communication when not IRL to me is text so that makes sense to preserve, even info, daily communication and memes, just the kind of day to day stuff you wouldn't "make memories" of but might want to look back on someday anyway.

That to me is all stuff worth keeping.

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Why?

Recently me and my gf were reminiscing about how we met and what we talked about first, since we have many common interests and we got along really well on our first date, it was interesting to go and actually look up what it was we talked about then because we couldn't agree on what it was.

Was a shame we didn't have our very very first messages from OkCupid but at least we had our WhatsApp and Telegram history.

On another occasion, a friend of mine was feeling nostalgic for a time we were playing through RE6 together, and I was able to go back in our chat history and find the memes we made about it at the time, full of in-jokes and whatnot and screencaps, which really cheered him up and was just fun to reminisce.

Another time I had an argument with some friends over which year we went to see A Wonderful Life in the cinema, and whether it was 2023 or 2024 and that was nice to have messages from that time to refer to and we ended up remembering a small adventure we had.

Or what about a nice heart to heart? What about something kind a friend said that cheered you up? What about some good advice someone gave you once? What about that one funny video you can only remember one bit from but you remember you sent it to a friend or a song or whatever?

What about raising an issue with your partner over something bad they do and being able to directly quote examples?

Maybe it's a westerner thing but growing up in Eastern Europe my parents always showed me photo albums and old noteworthy train and plane tickets and so on. Little nice things that remind you of good times or just important events.

I guess if you're older as well you probably don't have a lot of friends who text as well.

I also love seeing older photos too, Google Photos and Immich both have that feature where every day you can look back on images the same day from X years ago.

Heck I used my photos of the time I moved to a new flat figure out when I actually moved in, since the tenancy agreement was on some old portal I had no access to anymore and I needed to know the day I moved for a visa application.

To be honest I'm kind of baffled, what do you even reminisce on, if not experiences shared with others? Or do you just not like having a record of memories?

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What could actually be easier than CTRL+F the primary source?

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Signal will finally let you transfer your encrypted chat history to new linked devices