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[–] nathan@piefed.alphapuggle.dev 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Signal, which is only available via Playstore, if I'm not mistaken

You are, in fact, mistaken

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks, didn't know that existed.
Although their website is inaccurate, as it seems not to be available on f-droid.

It is. Follow these instructions. It adds an F-Droid repository with the applications

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Interesting...
I had the conflict with f-droid in my mind, where the Signal developers were very specific about not wanting any Signal builds distributed outside of the Playstore.
That seems to have changed...?
But still no build distributed via f-droid, I just checked. But that may still be because the f-droid maintainers really where pissed off at the time...

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

To my knowledge, they prohibit third parties from building distributions and connecting to the centralized server, because fuck open-source, I guess.

[–] Balldowern@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

No that's due to the tiny hat community doing exactly that & archiving secret chats. Check out Micah Lee's presentation in Defcon regarding Telemessage-Signal.