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.

    • DessalinesA
      24·
      4 years ago

      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.

      • Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml
        10·
        4 years ago

        I feel like lots of “privacy-oriented” mainstream tech discourse is a psyop designed to direct people to honeypots or even just inferior solutions.

        • southerntofu
          7·
          4 years ago

          Yes it’s called advertisement and it’s the byproduct of an ego/profit-driven society ;)

          • federico3
            41·
            4 years ago

            Never underestimate how many people are paid to influence product reviews, social media, message boards and so on.

        • DessalinesA
          7·
          4 years ago

          Pro US all the way down. It’s why all the reddit “privacy” subs praise microsoft, apple, signal, etc.

          • Ravn
            5·
            4 years ago

            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.

      • manemjeff
        3·
        4 years ago

        vscode is a meh software. Vscodium on the other hand…

        • southerntofu
          1·
          4 years ago

          Do you know of a good lightweight client that works well with tor? I’d like to be able to use matrix but Element is just super heavy (and works really bad over tor because of latency).

            • southerntofu
              1·
              4 years ago

              I hope for the best, but considering it’s yet another Javascript webapp, i find it hard to trust it’ll do anything better. By design it will force me to drop privacy/security features from my browser, and will use considerable resources.

        • federico3
          11·
          4 years ago

          Tox has a terrible security track record. At the same time, developers are still making wild claims that Tox can protect your from nation-state sponsored attacks:

          Whether it’s corporations or governments, digital surveillance today is widespread. Tox is easy-to-use software that connects you with friends and family without anyone else listening in.

          This is not a code problem.