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Or people could just install it from fdroid.
Oh wait, signal isn't FOSS so it isn't allowed on fdroid.
Molly is on fdroid I believe
Not the official repo...because they couldn't meet it's acceptance criteria. Which is a red flag
Yep and Molly is even better :)
I think it used to, but unfortunely Molly is not on Fdroid's repo. You can download it from the app, but you'd need to add Molly's repo
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android AGPL
Lol no.
Download the apk. It includes that AGPL and also non free blobs. Just because part of if is Foss does not make if foss
Nothing to laugh at here in my view. It is FOSS. The reason it isn’t on there is sort of procedural. You could easily build signal from source, but signal prefers only their builds connect to their servers. They of course can’t enforce this but fdroid is happy to do so.
I get it from FDroid via the Guardian repo. No issues.
Security issues. guardian repo has no acceptances criteria. Closed source blobs? Allowed.
what about Molly, then?
Molly is Foss, but it's not on fdroid for likely other sketchy reasons
You can import the repo into F-Droid.
...and make yourself less secure, sure
Its on Accrescent though
GrapheneOS frowns upon fdroid because of apk security reasons
Well unless they want to add verified APKs of all the apps I do use to their app store, their frowning is useless because every graphene user basically needs f-droid as it stands now.