cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoElon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging servicewww.disruptionist.comexternal-linkmessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up1786arrow-down113cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldprivacy@lemmy.mlhackernews@lemmit.onlinewolnyinternet@szmer.info
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minus-squaregandhibobandhi@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·2 months agoYeah look: https://github.com/signalapp
minus-squaretreadful@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoTheir backend is closed source. [EDIT: Incorrect, see below]
minus-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·2 months agohttps://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server On Wikipedia it says the servers are open source but spam prevention is proprietary.
minus-squaretreadful@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoThanks for the correction. That’s pretty rad. Now I’m wondering if that’s a wrong memory or if it was released in the last few years.
minus-squareAdam@doomscroll.n8e.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoThere was a fuss a while back since the released source appeared to be waaaay out of date compared to what was being used. They came out and said that they wanted the usernames feature to be developed fully before it got pushed public. Which they then did.
Yeah look: https://github.com/signalapp
Their backend is closed source.[EDIT: Incorrect, see below]
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
On Wikipedia it says the servers are open source but spam prevention is proprietary.
Thanks for the correction. That’s pretty rad. Now I’m wondering if that’s a wrong memory or if it was released in the last few years.
There was a fuss a while back since the released source appeared to be waaaay out of date compared to what was being used.
They came out and said that they wanted the usernames feature to be developed fully before it got pushed public. Which they then did.