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[-] sourcery@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago

There are legitimate reasons for not wanting to use Fdroid and their builds are apparently reproducible, not sure what you mean about not being fully FOSS either. https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/

[-] fogetaboutit@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

There are legitimate reasons for not wanting to use Fdroid

Such as?

[-] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The security risk their signing process introduces. My guess would be Signal wants a 0% chance of a malicious client being distributed, hence why they only allow direct apk downloads (which self-updates, essentially making an F Droid build obsolete) and Google Play. I would also guess this is why Signal only packages a deb package (if anyone knows a better way to run Signal desktop on fedora [besides the flatpak] than my current solution of spinning up a Mint Virtual Machine [maybe distrobox?] please let me know!) and literally has no official support for rpm based distributions.

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