cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoElon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging servicewww.disruptionist.comexternal-linkmessage-square81fedilinkarrow-up1756cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
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minus-squarebstix@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up109·6 days agoOnly the cool kids know where to get FOSS.
minus-squaregandhibobandhi@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·6 days agoYeah look: https://github.com/signalapp
minus-squaretreadful@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-26 days agoTheir backend is closed source. [EDIT: Incorrect, see below]
minus-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·6 days agohttps://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server On Wikipedia it says the servers are open source but spam prevention is proprietary.
minus-squaretreadful@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 days 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.
Only the cool kids know where to get FOSS.
Is signal foss?
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.
It’s source-available