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Molly advertises itself as a "hardened version of Signal," & its FOSS variant is the same without proprietary dependencies. TwinHelix's FOSS Signal fork goes further, adding OSM support instead of GMaps. Are these forks trustworthy, & are they worth using for added security compared to mainline?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since signal is not on fdroid I've been using Molly. Works fine for me. If having a third party developer modify the signal source code is an unacceptable risk for you then it's unacceptable. So far the Molly developers haven't done anything worrisome

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you tried Molly FOSS, or are you using the standard one with proprietary dependencies? Is there a meaningful difference in day to day functionality?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Foss, basically new messages might not show up immediately

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

if that's the case for you, your preferences may need some tweaking.