The Signal Server repository hasn’t been updated since April 2020. There are a bunch of links about this here but I found this thread the most interesting.
To me, this is unforgivable behaviour. Signal always positioned themselves as “open source”, and the Server itself is under the best license for server software (AGPLv3 – which raises questions about the legality of this situation).
Signal’s whole approach to open source has constantly been underwhelming to say the least. Their budget-Apple attitude (secrecy, i.e. “we can never engage the community directly”, “we will never merge/accept PRs”, etc) has lead to its logical conclusion here, I guess. I have been somewhat of a “Signal apologist” thus far (I almost always defend them & I think a lot of criticism they get it very unfair) but yeah I’m over Signal now.
Same, /r/privacy and /r/privacytoolsio are so completely watered down that I’ve even seen a lot of pro-microsoft / vscode apologia there. The red flags with signal have been there for years, but they choose to ignore it.
I feel like lots of “privacy-oriented” mainstream tech discourse is a psyop designed to direct people to honeypots or even just inferior solutions.
Yes it’s called advertisement and it’s the byproduct of an ego/profit-driven society ;)
Never underestimate how many people are paid to influence product reviews, social media, message boards and so on.
Pro US all the way down. It’s why all the reddit “privacy” subs praise microsoft, apple, signal, etc.
Off-topic, but the US-centrism is what put me off reddit entirely. I just can’t go there anymore because it makes me immediately feel like a foreigner in another country. I sometimes wish there was an internet-wide filter for anything US.
Same.
Unfortunately, you will also find it here, but it manifests to a lesser degree.
vscode is a meh software. Vscodium on the other hand…
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