SignalFeb 5

Find us in the Microsoft Store :)

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Show threadjoeldFeb 5
@signalapp how about an app for Linux phones that doesn't assume previous iPhone/Android?? 🙏 #postmarketos
Show threadMr. Beedell, Roke (RJLB)Feb 5
@joeld, you should post a suggestion at their Discourse instance. I'll support it, if you link it here.
Show threadCurio

@rokejulianlockhart
Not that they’d care, though.

Even understandable in this case, although them being systemically disinterested in cooperating with third-party client devs in any way (like refusing UnifiedPush) is a real problem.

Them not actively cracking down on third-party clients like WhatsApp does, is hardly worth praising – that’s just basic decency, really.

(WhisperFish exists though – it’s SailfishOS, rather than PostmarketOS though, but they are open to people doing a port.)
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Show threadMr. Beedell, Roke (RJLB)Feb 5

> Even understandable in this case, although them being systemically disinterested in cooperating with third-party client devs in any way (like refusing UnifiedPush) is a real problem.

@curiousicae, you may consider what is cited at ≤ https://github.com/UnifiedPush/wishlist/issues/8#issuecomment-1343328837 to be useful for you.

> WhisperFish exists though – it’s SailfishOS, rather than PostmarketOS

Per https://wiki.postmarketos.org/index.php?title=Flatpak&oldid=70079#top:~:text=postmarketOS%20supports%20installing%20Flatpaks, https://github.com/flathub/org.signal.Signal/blob/cc986ac10d9645a9c7937a073ba58286e36fd629/README.md?plain=1#L12C1-L12C42:~:text=flatpak%20install%20flathub%20org%2Esignal%2ESignal may be of use to you.

Signal · Issue #8 · UnifiedPush/wishlist

An discussion is already here: https://community.signalusers.org/t/use-gcm-fcm-alternatives-for-notifications/10264

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Show threadCurioFeb 5

@rokejulianlockhart
I know about Molly and MollySocket, including the fact that one needs to run the run their own 24/7 service for that kinda defeats the purpose. While adding support for UnifiedPush in the Signal service would be ~30 lines of code and massively simplify backgrounding on alternative mobile clients. My point here was about a social, not a technical problem.

I’m also on SailfishOS which has Whisperfish (nor does it really do Flatpak). I was just pointing out that if your hoping for a native client on PostmarketOS, helping porting Whisperfish is your best bet. Don’t hold your breath for Signal devs to do anything there, unless PMOS gets like 10+% global market share.

Show threadMr. Beedell, Roke (RJLB)Feb 5

> if your hoping for a native client on PostmarketOS, helping porting Whisperfish is your best bet

@curiousicae, I'm not. My FP4 and FP5 can cope with WayDroid, and the AOSP client provides a sufficiently touch-optimised interface.

However, if performance were a consideration, or Flatpak's sandbox were too painful, I would merely install a native CI build — like https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4530#issuecomment-3857041713 — in Distrobox, because GLibC isn't a ridiculous abstraction by comparison.