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Open Source but not actively accepting contributions is not a great place to be. Especially when you can't federate, so you are stuck using the central server w
by t3chguy 6y ago
Open Source but not actively accepting contributions is not a great place to be. Especially when you can't federate, so you are stuck using the central server which basically doesn't accept code contributions. Take a look at https://merge-chance.info/target?repo=https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server https://merge-chance.info/target?repo=https://github.com/sig...
Also it is somewhat interesting that this Open Source centralised Signal server, where centralisation means you can move quicker, hasn't seen a commit in 10 months.
Compare it to Matrix Synapse https://merge-chance.info/target?repo=https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse https://merge-chance.info/target?repo=https://github.com/mat...
The story with the flagship clients in both spaces is very similar.
- hiq 6y agoSure, I was mostly comparing Signal to proprietary centralized messengers here, not to FOSS decentralized messengers. Indeed they could do better.