• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    2 years ago

    Now if someone could make a desktop app (perhaps using Qt or some similar cross-platform toolkit) that isn’t Electron bloatware, for all the people who don’t have a few spare CPU cores and gigabytes of RAM to spend on a messaging client.

    • 10EXP@sh.itjust.works
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      2 years ago

      There’s Flare, a Signal client written in GTK4. It still has some features missing iirc, check their wiki for that.

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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    2 years ago

    I don’t understand. What makes Molly more trustworthy than Signal, if they both use the same central sever? The website doesn’t really provide much data.

      • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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        2 years ago

        How does that work, though? It’s the same servers and protocols, right? So it would verify with an sms. Or is Molly not compatible with Signal (Molly users talking with Signal users), and I’m just completely misunderstanding the statement of being a hardened Signal?

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          2 years ago

          I had mistaken molly for a different signal fork. Molly just uses an encrypted local db that doesn’t rely solely on the OS encryption method.

          • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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            2 years ago

            Ok, so besides being mostly FOSS (Molly) or all FOSS (Molly-FOSS), the only difference, is that Molly encrypts your db on top of the laughably easy to decrypt Signal db encryption and OS encryption? Wouldn’t that make push notifications impossible, though?