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Huh? Their client code isn't just fully open-source, it also has reproducible builds both on Android and iOS, has been for a while. Doesn't Signal only have the
by BelleOfTheBall 4y ago
Huh? Their client code isn't just fully open-source, it also has reproducible builds both on Android and iOS, has been for a while. Doesn't Signal only have them on Android? It's a great app either way but if RBs matter, that's a little knock against it.
- akvadrako 4y agoWhere did you get that idea from? Their client code is not usable because they don't provide working instructions for compiling it. If you can't compile it, they can't have reproducible builds. For example, see this issue from 2019 which the developers still haven't replied to: https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS/issues/97 https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS/issues/97 There are a lot more issues about people not being able to use the code, none of which get any replies from the owners.
- BelleOfTheBall 4y agoFrom their official announcement of reproducible builds. And this seems to be the instructions: https://core.telegram.org/reproducible-builds https://core.telegram.org/reproducible-builds
- wheresmyshadow 4y agoGitHub builds directly from their source code just fine: https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS/actions/runs/4193689397/jobs/7270890893 https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS/actions/ru... (uses this script: https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS/blob/master/.github/workflows/build.yml https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS/blob/maste...) And here are few recent examples of them helping people to solve build issues: https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS/issues/968#issuecomment-1397525284 https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS/issues/968... https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS/issues/986#issuecomment-1415244016 https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS/issues/986... https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS/issues/992#issuecomment-1420402146 https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS/issues/992... How were you digging to find an irrelevant issue yet omitted all of this? I really don't see the picture you're trying to paint.
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- shiomiru 4y agoIt certainly is usable. I'd used Telegram FOSS from F-Droid for quite long before switching to Nekogram (also on F-Droid), a third-party Telegram client with some extra features. Incidentally, Signal is still not available on F-Droid, and Signal developers are known to be hostile towards third-party clients (for "security reasons." Almost like I've heard that argument before from a certain smartphone manufacturer...)
- seanw444 4y agoYep, I also use Nekogram. I like how open the client aspect is of Telegram.