• geography082@lemm.ee
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    19 hours ago

    Why Signal is not in f-droid? Is there a statement from them about it? What I know is only in Google store . And talking to much about privacy and not being in a f-droid repo, is ironic

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      7 hours ago

      actually, years ago there was a long drawn out drama about people in Signal’s team refusing to publish on F-Droid because of “security concerns” in Moxie’s time. IIRC they worked to take down builds on the main repo

      you can probably still find the old github threads with the lenghty discussions

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        46 minutes ago

        I didn’t know, Thanks for the info . Well nowadays f-droid is a standard for privacy . They should reconsider

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        48 minutes ago

        Yes that’s correct, is listed in guardian project but with big red flags anti-featires, heavy thetered services with Google

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        10 hours ago

        since when? that’s good news to me!

        the alternatives seem to be Molly on the main repo and Signal-FOSS on TwinHelix’s

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      18 hours ago

      They also offered their .apk directly through their site with an included downloader last I checked, but I would love it to on f-droid