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Aral Balkan

@blackfire Unfortunately (again because of Signal), it doesn’t interoperate.

Sadly, Signal is about as closed as open gets.

blackfire

@aral how do you mean it doesn't interoperate? as in you can't see something? i thought it showed up in your linked devices?

Aral Balkan

@blackfire Basically, if you sign up for Axolotl using the same number, it breaks your Signal account.

github.com/nanu-c/axolotl/issu

blackfire

@aral o...... i did not know about that. thanks for catching me before i screwed up.

Aral Balkan

@blackfire Hmm, actually, having re-read it, I’m not so sure. It may be that what it breaks is the ability to use Signal’s own clients. It might be that if you use Axolotl everywhere (mobile + desktop), it’s fine. They call it a *client* so I’m assuming it works with Signal’s own servers. What worries me is that Signal has been hostile to anyone else making anything for Signal, period. So even if this is the case, they might break it on purpose. (And maybe they did? github.com/nanu-c/axolotl/issu)

@blackfire Hmm, actually, having re-read it, I’m not so sure. It may be that what it breaks is the ability to use Signal’s own clients. It might be that if you use Axolotl everywhere (mobile + desktop), it’s fine. They call it a *client* so I’m assuming it works with Signal’s own servers. What worries me is that Signal has been hostile to anyone else making anything for Signal, period. So even if this is the case, they might break it on purpose. (And maybe they did? github.com/nanu-c/axolotl/issu

Aral Balkan

@blackfire Update: axolotl apparently doesn't work on Postmarket OS according to this: wiki.postmarketos.org/index.ph

Mathijs

@aral @blackfire I host a matrix server with a signal bridge, which works quite well.

Of course that bridge has access to the plaintext of signal, but since that runs on my own server in my home I don't mind.

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