SignalAug 9, 2024

We're aware of reports that access to Signal has been blocked in some countries. As a reminder, Signal's built-in censorship circumvention feature might be able to help if your connection is affected:

Signal Settings > Privacy > Advanced > Censorship circumvention (on)

Show threadShadow06Aug 9, 2024
@signalapp What countries?
Show threadlyyn ☮️@Aug 9, 2024
@shadow06 @signalapp Russian authorities started blocking it today. Other countries that had been blocking it are Iran, China, Uzbekistan and Cuba.
Show threadBenjamin Kwiecień 🇵🇸
@lyyn @shadow06 @signalapp not blocked in Tajikistan 😎
Aug 9, 2024 at 8:43pmWeb
Show threadBenjamin Kwiecień 🇵🇸Aug 10, 2024
@lyyn @shadow06 @signalapp when I lived in Iran I ran my own Signal proxy. It was a great thing. It was also a lot of effort to accomplish something via Signal that was much easier with federated protocols like XMPP, Matrix, and Delta Chat. Signal is a great product for mass consumption, but it still requires a phone number and a central provider. To get Signal desktop to connect I ran it with a CLI option to enable SOCKS and then tunneled over TOR or SSH.