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Signal can easily work across multiple Android devices and iPhones now

• rkagerer 2mo ago
  https://archive.ph/x01wt https://archive.ph/x01wt But I found this link more informative: https://signal.org/blog/linked-devices-and-android-tablets/ https://signal.org/blog/linked-devices-and-android-tablets/
  • rkagerer 2mo ago
    Why the limitations? - only 45 days of media - link lost if inactive for 30 / 45 days - max 5 devices Is it because of reliance on the network to provide these features? I used ICQ decades ago and I could back up everything and move it to a different computer, I can still search the message archives to this day, and there weren't these silly artificial limits. Why has chat regressed?
• kevincox 2mo ago
  It seems that this is still a primary device that the replica devices connect to. So if your primary is offline, out of battery or broken your other device are still useless. Not proper multi-device support.
  • jessa0 2mo ago
    This isn't completely true, while linked devices probably can't do everything, they do act as independent message endpoints. Messages fan out sender-side, are encrypted and sent separately to each device of the recipient [1]. [1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/9b2c2ed66d854b7abb8ed1a29e976a516ab2ce67/lib/libsignal-service/src/main/java/org/whispersystems/signalservice/api/SignalServiceMessageSender.java#L2881 https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/9b2c2ed66d8...