AGPL iirc. it can be forked and run independently or modified into a decentralized federation model. So doesn’t really matter if they cave.
Randelung@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Been donating for a few months now, hoping they won’t cave to chat control pressure.
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 1 week ago
August27th@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Oh, so that’s why Google is killing sideloading.
philosloppy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
is there currently any work being done to do that though? It’s great that that is possible but if nobody is doing it, it’s only a cute hypothetical.
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 1 week ago
AFAIK, nope. There are several personal projects which modify Signal to work on private infrastructure rather than use signal’s centralized service, but nothing intended for public consumption or at least not that I’ve heard of. Maybe search it.
Signal is good enough and has been pushing for more mainstream appeal and polish (e.g. gif search) Its Achilles heel and main drawbacks stem from it’s centralization: needing a phone number and routing thru Signal’s infra. But that can also benefits them in some ways. Most devs who would be tempted to change that would rather spend their time elsewhere: tox, matrix, i2p, tor, xmpp and irc shenanigans, etc. Signal is just hydrated, in its lane, unbothered; chugging along as its LLC dictates. No alarms, no fires, no compelling reason to do a hard fork.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Its so annoying, I hate this “if you have nothing to hide…” mentality. The law sucks and is not fit for purpose, if it was its benefits would still not outweigh the costs.
Anyone in that horrible space is operating at a different level, anyone who is not should be caught by standard policing and parenting.
There is a brilliant podcast, hard listen but fantastic doc, called hunting warhead and it shows that this stuff is not happening on the open web. Your everyday scumbag is probably on tiktok or roblox where the victims might be.