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Pro to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months ago

Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp

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Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp

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Pro to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months ago
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Moving from WhatsApp to Signal is an important action, right now. WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, has been involved in several cases of election interference: America in 2016, Trinidad and Tobago …
  • katy ✨
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    signal not being on fdroid is a strike against them

    • qaz
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      It is though. I currently use Signal installed through F-Droid. You just need to add a separate repository.

    • @timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works
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      Fair. There is Molly on fdroid if you like.

      • AmbiguousProps
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        Molly is great.

      • @Konstant@lemmy.world
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        Can’t find it though

        • @timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works
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          Forgot- you gotta add their repo.

          https://molly.im/fdroid.html

    • @Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Signal is on F-Droid.

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      You can always install a release of any Android APK from a git repo using Obtainium.

      Signal releases

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