Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubuntu Snap

Re:Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubu... by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Thursday November 03, 2022 @01:01PM (#33453997)

This. It was hard enough to migrate people from Whatsapp ( as in, for all my privacy gripes, it is hard to argue that it just works very well in most instances ).

It is not like most of my social groups are me-centric, which forces me to pick battles carefully. Now that I moved people to signal, I need to do what I can to try moving signal to my ideal space ( no phone requirement being one of them, 3rd party clients and so on ).

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Re:Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubu... by zaik on Thursday November 03, 2022 @01:20PM (#33454286)

Sounds like sunk cost. What are your chances to influence Signal leadership in any way? A better idea would be to use internet standands for messaging to avoid vendor lock-in.

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Re:Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubu... by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Thursday November 03, 2022 @01:29PM (#33454429)

I agree in general, but can you offer a current project that is reasonably secure, relatively easy to install and use and built on actual standards?

That list is still short. I would love to be able to return to pidgin days, where all I had to connect my various accounts >.>

I do not know if the issue is that some the features are just incompatible with standards?

Sadly, the biggest problem is inertia.

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Re:Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubu... by zaik on Thursday November 03, 2022 @01:34PM (#33454521)

https://snikket.org/ could be the thing you're looking for.

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Re:Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubu... by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Thursday November 03, 2022 @01:38PM (#33454584)

Thank you. I will test it out. It actually may hit the spot.

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