The Signal Server repository hasn’t been updated since April 2020. There are a bunch of links about this here but I found this thread the most interesting.

To me, this is unforgivable behaviour. Signal always positioned themselves as “open source”, and the Server itself is under the best license for server software (AGPLv3 – which raises questions about the legality of this situation).

Signal’s whole approach to open source has constantly been underwhelming to say the least. Their budget-Apple attitude (secrecy, i.e. “we can never engage the community directly”, “we will never merge/accept PRs”, etc) has lead to its logical conclusion here, I guess. I have been somewhat of a “Signal apologist” thus far (I almost always defend them & I think a lot of criticism they get it very unfair) but yeah I’m over Signal now.

  • poVoq@lemmy.ml
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    4 years ago

    1/3? Maybe in the US and Japan, more or less everywhere else it is close to non-existent and the few that do use it are complete fools (that only bought it because they think it is an expensive status symbol like a Rolex watch).

    I am saying that your problem is very rare and based on special circumstances and that can happen pretty much with any solution. For example Signal is banned in Iran, so if you have some members that live in Iran you can’t really have a group-chat over Signal with them. Not a common issue, but real never the less.