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Anyone know of a fork of signal that disables this keeps the SMS feature?

by jerry1979 4y ago

fooqux 4y ago
Not likely to happen. While it's OSS, there's still a central Signal backend, and they don't like clients other than their own to connect to it. Any fork would eventually need to have their own backend, and now you're basically no longer using Signal since you won't be able to communicate with anybody else not using yours.
- barbazoo 4y ago
  Federated Signal servers!!!
  - fooqux 4y ago
    I think that's called Matrix and we already have that. Anyway, good luck getting Signal to federate with you until you have enough of a user base that they're losing users to your backend. They have zero reason to want to do this, and it introduces some privacy issues (what if your server doesn't respect deletions, etc?).
    - zaik 4y ago
      We even had it long before that. It's called XMPP, it's the internet standard for instant messaging and modern clients implement Signal style encryption.
      - viccuad 4y ago
        Signal is just XMPP implementing the Axolotl ratchet. XMPP is just SMTP and some protocol addons on top. SMTP is just FTP with RFC 469 and others. Etc.
- jcul 4y ago
  There is a fork called "Molly" that has been around for a long time. I haven't used but it is supposed to be a hardened version of signal. Not that it supports SMS, but it _is_ a fork that uses Signal's servers.
thefz 4y ago
Nobody is using SMS outside the US.
- absoflutely 4y ago
  Okay, well a lot of people actually live in the US.
  - mrmlz 4y ago
    And also a lot of people outside the US uses SMS.
shishy 4y ago
You can just go into settings and turn it off...
autoexec 4y ago
Silence. It's not very polished, but it's basically old signal.
Markoff 4y ago
Dunno about stories, but Johann's fork has no APK expiration, so just keep version with SMS support prior stories added and you should be fine. https://github.com/johanw666/Signal-Android/releases https://github.com/johanw666/Signal-Android/releases

Anyone know of a fork of signal that disables this keeps the SMS feature?

Not likely to happen. While it's OSS, there's still a central Signal backend, and they don't like clients other than their own to connect to it. Any fork would eventually need to have their own backend, and now you're basically no longer using Signal since you won't be able to communicate with anybody else not using yours.

barbazoo 4y ago
Federated Signal servers!!!
- fooqux 4y ago
  I think that's called Matrix and we already have that. Anyway, good luck getting Signal to federate with you until you have enough of a user base that they're losing users to your backend. They have zero reason to want to do this, and it introduces some privacy issues (what if your server doesn't respect deletions, etc?).
  - zaik 4y ago
    We even had it long before that. It's called XMPP, it's the internet standard for instant messaging and modern clients implement Signal style encryption.
    - viccuad 4y ago
      Signal is just XMPP implementing the Axolotl ratchet. XMPP is just SMTP and some protocol addons on top. SMTP is just FTP with RFC 469 and others. Etc.
jcul 4y ago
There is a fork called "Molly" that has been around for a long time. I haven't used but it is supposed to be a hardened version of signal. Not that it supports SMS, but it _is_ a fork that uses Signal's servers.

thefz 4y ago

Nobody is using SMS outside the US.

absoflutely 4y ago
Okay, well a lot of people actually live in the US.
- mrmlz 4y ago
  And also a lot of people outside the US uses SMS.

shishy 4y ago

You can just go into settings and turn it off...

autoexec 4y ago

Silence. It's not very polished, but it's basically old signal.

Markoff 4y ago

Dunno about stories, but Johann's fork has no APK expiration, so just keep version with SMS support prior stories added and you should be fine. https://github.com/johanw666/Signal-Android/releases https://github.com/johanw666/Signal-Android/releases