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Re:Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames by gruez on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @03:28PM (#39446466)
>If Signal was in any way open or free (as in freedom) I'd just compile my own client to speak an open protocol and be back in business. But no, Signal is just a proprietary service with a proprietary client.

Isn't the source code available? What's preventing you from compiling your own copy?

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Re:Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames by dingnuts on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @03:58PM (#39446815)
The server is centralized -- you might be able to stand up your own but it doesn't matter because you can't use it to talk to anyone else who isn't using your custom built app that uses your server
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Re:Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames by gruez on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @04:05PM (#39446894)
In other words you're complaining that it's not federated? That point has been relitigated in other parts of this thread so I don't want to go down that path. More to the point, I don't think that's what the parent post is talking about. He's complaining how he can't run signal on his outdated machine, not that he can't run his own private server.
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