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I love Signal. I use it as the primary means of contact for several close friends and have contributed patches. However, it drives me nuts that OWS won't allo
by mi100hael 10y ago
I love Signal. I use it as the primary means of contact for several close friends and have contributed patches. However, it drives me nuts that OWS won't allow federation or LibreSignal and requires phone numbers as user IDs. In the past, their justification has been that their primary goal is thwarting dragnet surveillance and none of these proposals further that goal (which is debatable in itself). I wish they would move more in the direction of an actual open source standard like they sort of purport to be rather than just an open source library with a closed implementation.
- lorenzhs 10y agoYou probably already know this, but OWS detailed their reasoning for not supporting federation at this time in their blog a while ago: https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
- mi100hael 10y agoI've seen it, I just disagree with it. IMO it's a dick move to say "no federation" and to also say "no 3rd-party clients." What's the point of GPL if you're completely locked to their official clients & servers anyway?