also looks like few days ago Louis Rossmann made a substantial donation to Mollyim.
Rossman’s embrace of FOSS is such an inspiration. Most people who claim to value freedom aren’t ready to put their money where their mouth is, let alone change their behavior at all.
Cool. I really respect his opinions, so I’ll definitely be giving this a look. I still need to get my wife on board though, since that’s what killed Signal for me last time I tried it (no point when the person I send the most sensitive info to doesn’t use it).
Does it have sms/mms function?
It does not.
Dang.
Is it interoperable with signal?
I was curious, so I read the GitHub page:
Molly connects to the Signal server, so you can chat with your Signal contacts seamlessly. Please remember to review the Signal Terms & Privacy Policy before signing up.
Thanks!
Switched to Molly after this update.
How didn’t we have that until now.
How’s it working? I was going to switch over today solely for linked tablet support.
deleted by creator
Apologies, but why would one prefer the fork over the original? Aren’t they both FOSS anyways?
No, the original depends on proprietary blobs. And so does molly, unless you use the FOSS version explicitly.
What do they use proprietary blobs for?
AFAIK, Google Maps, Firebase Cloud Messaging, Authentication and (since v5.24.15) Wallet/Payments. Might be more.
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks!
How long till they cut off access?
You will likely need to update every two weeks or it will stop working
deleted by creator
Why would they do that?
Their terms and services forbid third party clients for security reasons, and they have enforced it before. They have a bit of a point in that they can’t ensure that 3rd party applications aren’t spying on you, or more importantly other users you chat with, but that point is mooted when they refuse to document the risk of other apps, like your phone keyboard or “AI” assistant doing the same (which is already happening in some countries).
The second Signal works out that this exists.
I find it absolutely hilarious that deleting contacts is listed as a feature. Like why is that so hard for Signal to do?
Afaik they use your phones contacts. If you want to delete one, you need to delete the number from your phone.
They import from your phone contacts but if you delete someone from your phone contacts, they stay in the app.
You also can’t delete group messages from the app.
Does it support Stories?
Yes
Nice, thanks!
I completely forgot Signal added stories. People use that?
Yeah it’s pretty much the only form of private social media there is.
The question everyone’s dying to know
Just installed the FOSS version, was greeted with a “you can encrypt your database with a passphrase” message, put a long password in both fields, and, well, app crashes. Not really trustworthy imo
Shorter password and even just letters (yikes) doesn’t work either
So, encryption is just flat out broken then?
In my experience, yes. Can only speak for myself and my device though
Okay, everyone, I installed the current update and the app no longer crashes 🥳 but now I don’t know how to import my Signal data from within the same phone (the local export/import doesn’t really work and doesn’t include messages)
After switching from an iPad to an Android tablet recently this is exactly what I was looking for
My name ain’t molly…
