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You can install Telegram with f-droid, and it works well on a degoogled phone. Signal forbids alternate clients and is not on f-droid. It's thus just not an opt
by onli 4y ago
You can install Telegram with f-droid, and it works well on a degoogled phone. Signal forbids alternate clients and is not on f-droid. It's thus just not an option.
- martin_a 4y ago> Signal forbids alternate clients Which might be due to their E2E encryption?!?
- smarx007 4y agoNo, it's a management decision and not a technical limitation.
- hef19898 4y agoStrange, I have Signal on a de-googled Puxel 2 runnibg ClayxOS...
- fsflover 4y agoHow can I install Signal on my Qubes OS or on Pinephone, if I don't have any Google or Apple phones?
- smarx007 4y agoBut I guess you have an original Signal APK installed, not an alternative client that connects to Signal servers.
- newpseudonymn 4y agoThere are third party apps that connect to Signal's servers such as Molly. https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android
- GekkePrutser 4y agoIt was mainly moxie who was hell-bent against that though. I'm hoping they'll reverse their stance since he left. And on federation as well. Moxie was against all these things because it would make new features more difficult to implement. But personally I care much more for an open infrastructure. Most of their new features weren't even useful. I'm currently using a matrix bridge and I didn't get banned (officially that's a third party client too) so that's a good sign.
- khannurien 4y agohttps://signal.org/android/apk/ https://signal.org/android/apk/ Signal will send you a notification when updates are available, and self-update.
- NayamAmarshe 4y agoSo will Telegram but at least they're not hostile towards F-Droid like Moxie.