cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 天前Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging servicewww.disruptionist.comexternal-linkmessage-square90fedilinkarrow-up1781arrow-down113cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldprivacy@lemmy.mlprivacy@lemmy.dbzer0.comtechnik@feddit.orghackernews@lemmy.bestiver.seDeclineIntoCensorship@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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minus-squarebstix@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up113·4 天前Only the cool kids know where to get FOSS.
minus-squaregandhibobandhi@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·4 天前Yeah look: https://github.com/signalapp
minus-squaretreadful@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-24 天前Their backend is closed source. [EDIT: Incorrect, see below]
minus-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·4 天前https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server On Wikipedia it says the servers are open source but spam prevention is proprietary.
minus-squaretreadful@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 天前Thanks for the correction. That’s pretty rad. Now I’m wondering if that’s a wrong memory or if it was released in the last few years.
minus-squareAdam@doomscroll.n8e.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 天前There was a fuss a while back since the released source appeared to be waaaay out of date compared to what was being used. They came out and said that they wanted the usernames feature to be developed fully before it got pushed public. Which they then did.
Only the cool kids know where to get FOSS.
Is signal foss?
Yeah look: https://github.com/signalapp
Their backend is closed source.[EDIT: Incorrect, see below]
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
On Wikipedia it says the servers are open source but spam prevention is proprietary.
Thanks for the correction. That’s pretty rad. Now I’m wondering if that’s a wrong memory or if it was released in the last few years.
There was a fuss a while back since the released source appeared to be waaaay out of date compared to what was being used.
They came out and said that they wanted the usernames feature to be developed fully before it got pushed public. Which they then did.
It’s source-available