Five to [email protected]English • 1 year agoOlvid - Secure Messagingolvid.ioexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down110
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minus-squareFiveOPlinkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-21 year agoThe server isn’t open-source, but neither is Signal’s similar to Signal’s server in the past, but they claim to have a roadmap to change that. The French government recently promoted Olvid over Signal, Telegram, Whatsapp to all employees.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-21 year agoSignal’s server isn’t open source? Then what’s this: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
minus-squareFiveOPlinkfedilinkEnglish0•edit-21 year agoOh, wow – thanks. I hadn’t realized Signal had changed their server code status, my bad.
minus-square@warmasterlink2•1 year agoIf the server is not FOSS, why even bother with either Signal or Olvid? Wouldn’t a hardened self hosted XMPP server be more trustworthy than some random clown saying their stuff is supposedly secure?
minus-square@sir_reginaldlink1•1 year agoyes. But XMPP is an open standard, it’s not promoted by any corporation and thus it doesn’t have a marketing team. That’s why Signal, Matrix or Olvid are more discussed.
The server isn’t open-source,
but neither is Signal’ssimilar to Signal’s server in the past, but they claim to have a roadmap to change that.The French government recently promoted Olvid over Signal, Telegram, Whatsapp to all employees.
Signal’s server isn’t open source? Then what’s this:
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
Oh, wow – thanks. I hadn’t realized Signal had changed their server code status, my bad.
Fuck android police and their adblock pop-up
If the server is not FOSS, why even bother with either Signal or Olvid?
Wouldn’t a hardened self hosted XMPP server be more trustworthy than some random clown saying their stuff is supposedly secure?
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yes. But XMPP is an open standard, it’s not promoted by any corporation and thus it doesn’t have a marketing team. That’s why Signal, Matrix or Olvid are more discussed.