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Re:Signal can now be used without Google Play Services by Paul-ish on Monday February 20, 2017 @05:22PM (#13691540)
Your messages still go through OWS servers. I believe signal routes messages via phone #.

Signal client is open source though, so maybe this is easy to work around.

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Re:Signal can now be used without Google Play Services by gjjrfcbugxbhf on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @07:41AM (#13695022)
OWS has specifically said they won't accept federation...
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Re:Signal can now be used without Google Play Services by Paul-ish on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @11:50AM (#13696960)
I was more suggesting a separate centralized service that doesn't use phone #s, but true that you still wouldn't be able to use it with standard Signal users.
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