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Molly, Signal FOSS (TwinHelix), Molly FOSS - Better than Signal? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Molly advertises itself as a "hardened version of Signal," & its FOSS variant is the same without proprietary dependencies. TwinHelix's FOSS Signal fork goes further, adding OSM support instead of GMaps. Are these forks trustworthy, & are they worth using for added security compared to mainline?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does Molly or TwinHelix still allow sms? If so, on top of having no Google dependencies, it'd be a no brainer switch for me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You want SMS but not Google. How does that line up?

Spying is OK, but not if it's Google?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My reference is regarding signal removing SMS and how ~75% of my messaging is SMS. If signal still offered SMS, it would make having others switch much much easier. I do use a security and privacy based VOIP service for sms and calls currently. But the moves I make are almost always much more than my friends are willing to do.