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Like Signal?

• XorNot 5y ago
  I mean yes, but Signal needs to grow up and decide if it's going to find a way to play ball with business, or stick to it's ideological purity and weird cryptocurrency experiments (I use Signal solely for all my messaging now).
  • flubflub 5y ago
    What do you mean by play ball with business?
    • judge2020 5y ago
      Supposedly Signal received ~$600k in donations in 2018 while spending ~4M in infrastructure costs[0], so OP is suggestion they do regular revenue generation via in-app features and whatnot instead of cryptocurrency stuff. 0: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/signal-statistics/#:~:text=Messaging-,Signal%20Revenue,-Signal%20does%20not https://www.businessofapps.com/data/signal-statistics/#:~:te...
• fsflover 5y ago
  Like Matrix. Signal can't even be installed without Apple or Google.
  • Sunspark 5y ago
    It can be, only for Android.
    • fsflover 5y ago
      Isn't this unofficial?
      • lorenzhs 5y ago
        https://signal.org/android/apk/ https://signal.org/android/apk/ and it appears to work without Google Play Services (though push notifications drain more battery iirc because they can't use the google push notification service)
        • fsflover 5y ago
          Signal themselves do not recommend it for some reason: > Danger zone > Most users should not do this under normal circumstances. What is the danger here? Where is the F-Droid application?