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Recently discovered this. Molly supports link with existing device just like on signal desktop. It even has benefit of getting entire chat history unlike signal desktop. Just restore the signal backup file during setup and then click link with existing device. Then scan with you primary phone. Beauty of open source. Molly: https://molly.im/

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why is it not actually in F-droid? They want me to install a private repo? Has it been audited or is this a shill?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

F-Droid doesn't want to host Molly because Signal doesn't want any forks on F-Droid. Seriously, that's the whole reason. Molly devs would be fine with it.

Molly is actually reproducible and has a fully FOSS version, so it is trustworthy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Is that because Signal has trackers in it and F-Droid would remove them?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, Signal dev forced f-droid admins not to upload Molly to its official repo? How?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

No. The F-Droid team just doesn't want beef with the Signal guys.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's a good question, It really should be in the main repository.