The Great Migration 🚀

UltrasonicMadness (he/him)

@dansup I'm not convinced that an ethical version of #TikTok is possible - the entire premise is loss of time and cognitive function to a mini-parade of utterly inane rubbish.

Radiation Craziness

@LightningToaster @hyc A quick search for "signal apk" brought me here... https://signal.org/android/apk/

It even includes the fingerprint hash which you can verify with AppVerifier

Kalon

Its really too bad but it seems like Friendica isn't coded efficiently.

To a large degree Mastodon is working the same way, but the focus on friends first make it a better entry to the Fediverse for those coming from Facebook.

Really wish it performed better. Perhaps people smarter than me will get around to a complete rewrite. Probably in Rust.

@Drahngis

@dansup

LightningToaster

@techindepth27 Okay so maybe nothing changed, and that is how I used to find it as well: Only findable through search engine. It simply cannot be found using the Signal website.

Toni Aittoniemi

@dansup @matrix @xmpp Signal might get legit banned. Both in USA and EU, actually.

Bonsai861

@qgustavor @dansup What's wrong with Matrix crpyto?

JustBob

@matrix @xmpp @dansup

WhatsApp ️ #XMPP

Ray McCarthy

@dansup @matrix @xmpp
Japanese owned Viber is a good alternative to WhatsApp.
You can setup so only people in your phone contacts in advance can send, so then no adverts. Group or individual, with a group moderator. Text, voice, images, file transfer and Video.
Encrypted.
Skype was OK till wrecked by MS. Now it's gone.

Radiation Craziness

@LightningToaster Yeah I see that.... that's probably not a good sign

Martina Neumayer

@csolisr Yes I know about it. But the problem with Molly is that, that they doesn't support older android versions anymore. If I remember correctly, the lowest system version on which the app can be installed is 11. Anything older isn't supported, which is pretty big unfortunate for many people.
Btw.. Original Signal also offers two different versions of their app without google blobs included and with UnifiedPush. They are available on their page and from F-Droid repositories.

@dansup @kitkat

ĞÖKÜ👻👻™

@dansup @matrix @xmpp session ??

Carlos Solís

Hold up, mainstream Signal has finally integrated MollySocket then?

Pevin Kinel

@techindepth27 @pwm just wanted to say that actually Delta's onboarding mechanism is the simplest and fastest i've seen. Start it the first time, write your name and that's it. Because it's not linked to a phone number nor pre-existing email, you don't have to go hunting for a confirmation link/code. Made the transition super smooth for a bunch of friends here

@delta

Carlos Solís

Never mind, there is a version of Signal without Google libraries, but instead of using UnifiedPush like Molly does, Signal falls back to direct WebSockets, which requires much more battery consumption in the background unfortunately. github.com/signalapp/Signal-An…

Carlos Solís

Friendica is a dinosaur that predates Mastodon and prides itself on being hostable in any web host that accepts PHP with versions as low as 7.4. A Rust rewrite would no longer be Friendica, unfortunately. There's also the zillion forks of it (Hubzilla, Zap, Osada, Streams to name a few) and those, too, are still based on PHP.

Carlos Solís

However! Friendica very recently released a new version that finally does something about the slow queries, by adding a cache for network channels. It also includes a few quality-of-life improvements. friendi.ca/2026/01/27/friendic…