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   Truth Or Consequences ✅ 🇺🇦 (savvyhomestead@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 22:44:08 JST Truth Or Consequences ✅ 🇺🇦

   Waiting for Pixelfed to get up and running with their encrypted messaging.

   Seems single source platforms can be too easily compromised.

   https://therecord.media/signal-no-longer-cooperating-with-ukraine

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 22:44:01 JST 翠星石

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     • G. Gibson
     • eliseo
     @eliseo01 @mistergibson @Savvyhomestead The mobile signal client is not free software - you cannot compile a working binary without authentication keys that the signal developers refuse to provide to f-droid for example.
     
     It's only if you customize the server and client to no longer be signal, that you can actually compile it and it'll work, but you may as well use better chat software at that stage.
     
     There is also a (somewhat broken) CLI library, but you can't use it without passing a "captcha" that requires a phone number and running proprietary JavaScript, so that's clearly not free either.
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     eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 22:44:03 JST eliseo

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     • G. Gibson
     @mistergibson @Savvyhomestead
     
     As for why I avoid Signal. Other than the obvious things such as mandatory phone number requirements which is discriminatory against people that doesn't have phone number and also paradoxically very privacy unfriendly, the founder has a strong opinion in favor of centralization and has repeatedly showed an anti federation discourse over the years, given how Signal is designed it seems consistent with the kind of culture the project has as "convenient solution to a complex problem". I don't trust snake oil sellers, their clients being free software (which I doubt, requires investigation) means nothing if the server is in hands of a single company or organization.
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     G. Gibson (mistergibson@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 22:44:05 JST G. Gibson

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     • eliseo
     @eliseo01 @Savvyhomestead xmpp is pretty cool but I took up Matrix protocol as a replacement. All my ruby gems for xmpp are abandoned - but Matrix actively develops support for Ruby
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     eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 22:44:06 JST eliseo

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     • G. Gibson
     @mistergibson @Savvyhomestead
     
     I recommend XMPP as a Signal replacement.
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     G. Gibson (mistergibson@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 22:44:07 JST G. Gibson

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     @Savvyhomestead I recommend Element as Signal replacement
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 23:19:45 JST 翠星石

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     • G. Gibson
     • eliseo
     @eliseo01 @mistergibson @Savvyhomestead Signal is slightly better in that (most of the) source code to the server is at least available under a free software license, unlike the proprietary Telegram, which also has unpublished server software.
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     eliseo (eliseo01@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 23:19:46 JST eliseo

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     • 翠星石
     • G. Gibson
     @Suiseiseki @mistergibson @Savvyhomestead
     
     So Signal is essentially a western Telegram on everything Telegram sucks about.