Meredith Whittaker4d ago
Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3
Show threadCassandrich4d ago

@Mer__edith And you can also promise not being owned by nazis with VC brainworms looking for the first opportunity to sell out their users. Unlike SimpleX.

Please, if you can, try to focus on some of the selling points they're using to dupe folks onto their platform, some of which really matter (like anonymous sign-up).

Show threadaburka 🫣4d ago
@dalias @Mer__edith The ability to use my signal account on a burner phone would be amazing (and obviously technically feasible, since the desktop app exists)
Show threadPenelope Gwen 🏳️‍⚧️3d ago
@aburka
If you mean adding your burner phone as a linked device to your Signal account, I've been able to use the Molly client on Android to achieve this
Show threadaburka 🫣3d ago
@pogmommy nice, hadn't heard of Molly but will look into it. Not entirely sure how to feel about unofficial signal software... witness the US govt's usage of a signal client that was MITMing all the comms. Of course they did that on purpose but a malicious client could do the same
Show threadPenelope Gwen 🏳️‍⚧️
@aburka don't blame you at all. All I've seen about Molly seems to indicate high safety/security- it appears to be well-regarded in the grapheneos forums/community. Its selling point is being a hardened fork of the official Signal client, featuring things like at-rest encryption, ram wiping, etc. And if you install Molly-foss (the only version available in Accrescent store) it replaces proprietary blobs that Signal depends on for notifs/location services with secure, open-source alternatives.
their website is https://molly.im & the link to the project's git repo is https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android
fwiw, I'm not a dev or contributor to the project, just a satisfied user. definitely look into it yourself before trusting it with your data & access to your signal account.
Molly

Molly is an improved Signal app for Android

Jun 17 at 3:17pmWeb
Show threadaburka 🫣3d ago
@pogmommy high regard by grapheneos users is a strong recommendation!