Chris Ely

For Signal, they will know when and how often you receive Signal messages.

Notifications are used to “activate” the app on your device. Then it will connect to Signal servers and download the encrypted messages.

After the software on your device decrypted the message, then it has the sender details and message content.

There are settings to control how much of that information is used when creating the local notification. Because other apps might log notifications.

@jackalope
@L4s

Installing from F-Droid prevents sales like this from causing silent “upgrades” to advertising-infested versions.

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/issues/3142

@kpw

Done.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

@MonkderZweite

There were two SMS mistakes by Signal:

1. https://signal.org/blog/goodbye-encrypted-sms/

2. https://signal.org/blog/sms-removal-android/

@MonkderZweite
@z0rg0n

RCS is already an open standard, that’s why Apple is and always has been able to implement it themselves without relying on Google for anything.

@NENathaniel @kirklennon

You can get good battery life from a Pixel 6, 7, or 8 series device even with stock Android.

It only gets better when flashing a custom OS, particularly GrapheneOS, because you have more control over which apps can be running or using the network / location chips because radio or location can chew through battery charge very quickly.

@Corkyskog

This video covers most of your questions.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qxAnWYUvDxg

Alternative 🔗:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=qxAnWYUvDxg
https://piped.video/watch?v=qxAnWYUvDxg

@Corkyskog

The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) is the base for both operating systems.

GrapheneOS actually makes a lot of effort to provide solutions that are mostly better than what stock Android provides.

https://grapheneos.org/features#sandboxed-google-play

@Corkyskog

@GrapheneOS is an alternative OS that provides better privacy than the stock Android that can be installed on Pixel devices.

https://grapheneos.org/install/

> GrapheneOS is a private and secure mobile operating system with great functionality and usability.

@Corkyskog

At the quoted speed, I think they should be legally obligated to provide 15,821 TB of data transfer per month, at a bare minimum.

@yote_zip
@whfsdude

I can confirm. I have touched several of the computers sold before 1990 in my lifetime.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ErwS24cBZPc

To be fair, many people didn’t use computers much, back then.

@Zorque
@teft

I’m familiar with Izzy. The main objection I have is that apps in that repository aren’t built from source independently. I think it’s a terrible trend to throw away the checks and benefits of using an app store, by telling people to turn off safety features and install from untrusted sources. TOFU is not a replacement for reproducible builds and binary white-listing.

This app in particular is trying to update itself, which I find unacceptable.

@visnudeva

There is zero chance I will install SongTube right now.

I only give permission to install apps to app stores and app managers. The author should put in the work to have the app included in the main F-Droid repository before I could even consider recommending the app.

Practically, no apps should be downloading updates to themselves.

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.artxdev.songtube

@visnudeva
@Harry_h0udini

You’re simply wrong about that.

> As many as 63% of users worldwide rely on the default texting app on their cell phones. The remainder of the texting market is split between the most popular messaging apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, etc

> 37% of consumers prefer to use instant messaging apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger to communicate with companies, while 31% prefer text/ SMS

https://www.telemessage.com/messaging-trends-by-country-and-platform/

https://textus.com/playbook/2022-texting-statistics-and-2023-predictions/

@GigglyBobble

I’d argue the percentage wasn’t small. The available population was Android users with SMS contacts.

Either way, it was an unforced error for the Signal leadership that gave away their competitive advantage in their home field to mainly Google and Facebook apps.

There is no way to convince me to go back to supporting Signal after that blunder. They destroyed my secure contacts network in less than two months after the announcement.

@Virkkunen @0421008445828ceb46f496700a5fa6