If I remember correctly F-Droid supports reproducible builds, but it’s a matter of the app developer supporting them. So there is light at the end of the tunnel, we’re just not there yet.
The point is that the community asked multiple times and they only started allowing apk downloads so people would stop asking. The signal project is open source for auditing purposes only, they have voiced their lament of forks and threatened to ban/block anyone not using an official client and refuse to make it easy to install through a package manager of the user’s choosing. The version without Google cloud messaging has unreliable message delivery, even though there is unifiedpush as a standard that would allow people to register with any push notification service.
That’s what Session is
Which is actually on fdroid, unlike Signal who explicitly refuses to support degoogled ecosystems
Weird as I get signal from f-droid.
from what repo
moxie specifically made a statement that he refuses to support fdroid, it’s not in the fdroid repo
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/127
don’t post misinfo
Is there some signing in place to ensure it’s not a malicious repo? I don’t really trust unofficial F-Droid repos.
Unfortunately not. I’m trusting others who know better but if you want trusted as best as it can be you’re stuck with the play store sadly.
If I remember correctly F-Droid supports reproducible builds, but it’s a matter of the app developer supporting them. So there is light at the end of the tunnel, we’re just not there yet.
You can download the APK from their website and it auto updates itself. It fetches notifications without Google required.
That’s not the point
What’s the point then? Is it fdroid specifically?
The point is that the community asked multiple times and they only started allowing apk downloads so people would stop asking. The signal project is open source for auditing purposes only, they have voiced their lament of forks and threatened to ban/block anyone not using an official client and refuse to make it easy to install through a package manager of the user’s choosing. The version without Google cloud messaging has unreliable message delivery, even though there is unifiedpush as a standard that would allow people to register with any push notification service.