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Re:Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts by growse on Monday July 26, 2021 @04:22AM (#27957015)
Signal placing restrictions on who can use their service has nothing to do with whether or not people can contribute to the codebase.
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Re:Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts by hjek on Monday July 26, 2021 @05:33PM (#27965785)
It does. There is less incentive to work on a Signal client fork if it can't be used to interoperate with the Signal service.
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Re:Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts by growse on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @04:55AM (#27970187)
That's a bit like saying there's less incentive to work on (for example) Elasticsearch, because you can't deploy your fork on Elastic Co's official managed service. It's nonsense.
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Re:Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts by hjek on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @03:05PM (#27976217)
There's a difference here between Elasticsearch and Signal, namely that that network effect is a very important factor with messaging apps.
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