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by ryukoposting 929 days ago
Even Signal pitches a fit if you use a third-party app with their servers. It's a common (and unfortunate) practice.
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colinsane 929 days ago
what does this mean? plenty of 3rd party signal clients exist (flare being a well-known one); signal explicitly factored out a libsignal presumably to _encourage_ this.

i’ve run multiple 3rd-party signal clients, even alongside the official apps, and never seen any problems or warnings.

[flare]: https://gitlab.com/schmiddi-on-mobile/flare

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joecool1029 929 days ago
>what does this mean?

Moxie (Signal's founder) has thrown fits in the past over the existence of third-party clients using their servers: https://github.com/libresignal/libresignal/issues/37#issueco...

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droopyEyelids 929 days ago
By calling that a “fit” it sounds like you’ve an axe to grind.

That was pretty damn polite for a heated mailing list discussion.

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ryukoposting 929 days ago
I use my own personal fork of the official Signal app (I absolutely despise the idea of going back to having a separate SMS app), so I do. Sort of.
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remus 929 days ago
> It's a common (and unfortunate) practice.

It would be nice if third party clients were allowed to connect, but it's totally understandable if they don't want to allow it. Servers cost money, and misbehaving client apps that you have no control over sound like a pain in the ass.

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