Comment by xorcist
2 years ago
The Signal devs have been very clear that they consider forked or third party clients freeloaders and will cut them off, sooner or later.
2 years ago
The Signal devs have been very clear that they consider forked or third party clients freeloaders and will cut them off, sooner or later.
Source? Sounds like even a bigger reason to create a parallel network
I recall reading this as well on their website
I'd still appreciate a source. There's things I'm aware of that I think could be confused with this, but I've seen no indication of them actually wanting to or even caring about forks. Only in the servers.
In fact, in this thread they are discussing how you can, with Molly, use both the official and staging servers with the same number: https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-fork-with-passphr...
A mod recommends Molly here: https://community.signalusers.org/t/how-to-use-signal-on-3-d...
A list of forks: https://community.signalusers.org/t/list-of-unofficial-forks...
And here's people arguing: https://community.signalusers.org/t/on-forking-signal/31651/...
As far as I can tell, Signal's policy is more "Do what you want, but server costs are high so we don't want to pay for your product. But if you do, here's all the code to give you a start." That's a very different policy from blacklisting.
And as I keep asking others, what's stopping everyone from making a federated Signal? If you can use the same account on both the production/official server and the staging server, why can't you on the production server __and__ a community federated server?
And if they ban you from the production server, so what? Now you're on par with literally every other federated service. Like what is Signal going to do? Stop open sourcing code? That'd be like trying to kill a mosquito by stabbing yourself in the heart. If they're willing to do that, I'd rather it be sooner than later anyways.
So I want a source because I just don't get what you all are complaining about. Is it just that someone else didn't make the thing you want? Sure, I get frustrated, but the comments more come off as Signal being nefarious and I just don't see Signal acting in any way malicious. In fact, hosting links to forks and being a common place for those forks to discuss seems like they are actively supporting them.
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