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by gruez 451 days ago
Does it matter? It's a SaaS anyways, so if they wanted to go rogue and use it to eavesdrop on your chats open source wouldn't really prevent that. They even specifically recommend using a dedicated group chat for notification purposes. For self-hosted deployments there's already a multitude of projects that expose an API to send signal messages.
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Yes - if it were open-source, you could self host it.
Here ya go. I use this for various notifications for my home network, versus using email.

https://github.com/bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api

Seems interesting but I have already second app linked to my profile.
I am using apprise for several years. It works but have few drawbacks:

-no login, almost no security

-sometimes it does not works and there are no logs to see what exactly happens.

-secret storage is very bad

Ntfy I will check thanks.

> no login

That's because the goal is to allow you to stick a proper nginx or webserver infront of it if you need this layer.

> Sometimes doesn't work

Please open a ticket and share why since your able to determine this from your logs. Maybe it can be fixed upstream?

> Secret storage is bad

You can create a string (key) that is randomized > 200+ characters. What can be improved to assist you with your concerns?

Apprise is awesome.