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

[croaker@lemmy.zip]

Ah, sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you were asking if they had usernames that could be used in lieu of a phone number as a contact.

[mac@lemm.ee]

I just set up molly today, along with mollysocket and an ntfy server. Liking it so far, just need to get my friends to migrate...

[baatliwala@lemmy.world]

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

[alecsadler@sh.itjust.works]

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

Molly has it.

[elena@lemmy.world]

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

[mutilationwave@lemmy.world]

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.

[mutilationwave@lemmy.world]

That's always the hard part.

[seekpie@lemm.ee]

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

[pullpantsunsworn@lemmy.ml]

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.

[derin@lemmy.beru.co]

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.

[engineergaming@feddit.nl]

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.

[toynbee@lemmy.world]

What's Molly in this context?

[alecsadler@sh.itjust.works]

https://molly.im/

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

[toynbee@lemmy.world]

TIL. Thank you!

[iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com]

I feel personally attacked.

[qualifiedkitten@lemmy.world]

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.

[qualifiedkitten@lemmy.world]

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.

[engineergaming@feddit.nl]

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!

[noodlejetski@lemm.ee]

I think you might be a bit lost

[laintrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

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.