Re:Products vs. Protocols: What Signal got right
by 3np on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @10:16PM
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While you’re very correct about Signal’s hostility to third-party clients, there is a decently well-functioning Signal bridge for Matrix (using signald under the hood).
They very well might sabotage that, but it does link up today.
Matrix doesn't link up with Signal. The Signal devs have emphasized time and time again that they don’t want any third-party applications talking to their servers. While there does exist some outside software that connects to Signal’s own infrastructure without Signal’s permission (e.g. signal-cli), that is only tolerated because those third-party apps have very few users.