cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoElon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging servicewww.disruptionist.comexternal-linkmessage-square90fedilinkarrow-up1778arrow-down113cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldprivacy@lemmy.mlprivacy@lemmy.dbzer0.comtechnik@feddit.orghackernews@lemmy.bestiver.sewolnyinternet@szmer.infoDeclineIntoCensorship@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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minus-squaretreadful@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-24 days agoTheir backend is closed source. [EDIT: Incorrect, see below]
minus-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·4 days agohttps://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server On Wikipedia it says the servers are open source but spam prevention is proprietary.
minus-squaretreadful@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 days agoThanks for the correction. That’s pretty rad. Now I’m wondering if that’s a wrong memory or if it was released in the last few years.
minus-squareAdam@doomscroll.n8e.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 days agoThere was a fuss a while back since the released source appeared to be waaaay out of date compared to what was being used. They came out and said that they wanted the usernames feature to be developed fully before it got pushed public. Which they then did.
Their backend is closed source.[EDIT: Incorrect, see below]
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
On Wikipedia it says the servers are open source but spam prevention is proprietary.
Thanks for the correction. That’s pretty rad. Now I’m wondering if that’s a wrong memory or if it was released in the last few years.
There was a fuss a while back since the released source appeared to be waaaay out of date compared to what was being used.
They came out and said that they wanted the usernames feature to be developed fully before it got pushed public. Which they then did.