Last year, I outlined the specific requirements that an app needs to have in order for me to consider it a Signal competitor. Afterwards, I had several people ask me what I think of a Signal fork c…
I’ve used it because it actually allowed me to register, while the registration in the official app broke (my best guess is due to lack of Google services, because that’s the popup the app got stuck on). And if I knew about it earlier, I could’ve used it to register in an Android VM and then tie a desktop client - because unlike the original, it did not force you to use your camera, you could just use a link. Another important quality for me is the ability to use arbitrary Socks rather than Signal’s own - when every protocol has a chance to be blocked, flexibility is important, and having a standalone proxy may be more convenient than a whole-device VPN (that you’d have to keep on all the time to receive notifications).
What are everyone’s thoughts on Molly, advertised as a hardened fork of Signal?
Don’t care too much about the supposed hardening, but it’s on FDroid and has UnifiedPush, so I use it over Signal
I’ve been using it for several months mostly due to it’s UnifiedPush notifications support and been really happy with it.
I’ve used it because it actually allowed me to register, while the registration in the official app broke (my best guess is due to lack of Google services, because that’s the popup the app got stuck on). And if I knew about it earlier, I could’ve used it to register in an Android VM and then tie a desktop client - because unlike the original, it did not force you to use your camera, you could just use a link. Another important quality for me is the ability to use arbitrary Socks rather than Signal’s own - when every protocol has a chance to be blocked, flexibility is important, and having a standalone proxy may be more convenient than a whole-device VPN (that you’d have to keep on all the time to receive notifications).