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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
by 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 agoFederated Signal servers!!!
- fooqux 4y agoI 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 agoWe 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 agoSignal 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 agoThere 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.