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[–] Oddbin@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Weird as I get signal from f-droid.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

from what repo

moxie specifically made a statement that he refuses to support fdroid, it's not in the fdroid repo

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/127

don't post misinfo

[–] Oddbin@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's still there. You said nothing about a specific repository. That's not "missinfo". How about you calm your rhetoric.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

because it's not in the fdroid or IzzyOnDroid repo... so explain

I showed you the creator of signal explicitly saying he refuses to support fdroid

[–] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] mojo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Signal-Foss has been made redundant and has stopped development for years. They added push notifications on degoogled phones, but Signal added that themselves.

The CalyxOS repository is a smaller repo only preinstalled on CalyxOS phones and it's really rarely added outside of Calyx phones. So I'm going to take a guess you're running CalyxOS to have that on your fdroid. Which I love the CalyxOS project btw, I've used them for a number of years and did a few commits to the project.

[–] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

To be fair both are small repositories, yes, but I managed to find them both when looking for a way to install Signal via F-Droid. And no, I'm not running CalyxOS, but a different degoogled ROM :)

I might be wrong, but TwinHelix's Signal-FOSS seems to still be active, the latest update I found on their F-Droid repository and their GitHub is from yesterday: https://github.com/tw-hx/Signal-Android/releases/tag/v6.32.5.0-FOSS

But anyway, I just wanted to share these 2 sources since I saw the Signal / F-Droid discussion happening. It could be useful to someone. I don't know enough to judge what option is better.

[–] Forbo@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is there some signing in place to ensure it's not a malicious repo? I don't really trust unofficial F-Droid repos.

[–] Oddbin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately not. I'm trusting others who know better but if you want trusted as best as it can be you're stuck with the play store sadly.

[–] Forbo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

If I remember correctly F-Droid supports reproducible builds, but it's a matter of the app developer supporting them. So there is light at the end of the tunnel, we're just not there yet.