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by finnn 1819 days ago
I'm looking for people's experience interacting with the Signal server, not moxie. We're talking about if the server enforces any kind of client restrictions.

I haven't looked super deep, but to the best of my knowledge that's not something that happens really. I looked through that reddit thread (thanks for that BTW, whisperfish seems interesting) and skimmed over that enormous GitHub thread, but I couldn't find much in the way of people actually experiencing issues interacting with the Signal server. Again, would appreciate it if you could link me to such a thing. As I mentioned elsewhere, I maintain an unofficial signal client and I try to be aware of these sort of things.

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moxie views the servers as his, to change policy wise as he sees fit. I'm not sure you can separate the two practically.
We know the policy, no one is confused about the policy, all 3rd party clients violate the policy.

Is the policy enforced? I've seen no evidence of it.

Most of the replies in this sub-thread are not about servers possibly disrupting the work of custom clients right now. But you react as if they were.

Other things that are being brought up here are at least as important and interesting to discuss.

Okay, that's fair. I interpreted them as a response to the original question about if the policy is enforced.
I also interpreted them that way.