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I'd just like to point out that if Signal leaves the EU, it will most likely just mean that it's not available through the official app stores. With Signal updating itself, it's just a little inconvenient to install it on a new device, though, they even said that they'll try to make it as easy as possible.
Yup. At most, Signal gets removed from the Play Store. There's no meaningful way to block Signal, especially now that big CDN providers are starting to rollout Encrypted Client Hello.
"If it's not allowed in the play store and we need to click away a Google warning or 2, maybe it's dangerous and we shouldn't use it" - average Joe. Next step: "... suspect was using signal, so we decided to ..." yada yada yada same as it already is perceived in general for tor and even with VPN in some countries. Just the fact you're not using the thing most other people use makes you stand out.
~~Molly~~ Moxie will need to go back to F-Droid 😂
Molly has its own F-Droid repo, it's one of the default available in Droid-ify.
Yes, I wanted to mean Moxie, sorry. The one that said "NO SIGNAL ON F-DROID REPOS"... hahaha blaming f-droid was insecure and that's why we should use Google services.
He didn't want Signal on FDroid because surprise surprise he just wanted to roll their own crypto coin with insiders knowledge. You can't do that with open source so easily. There's a reason they didn't publish code for years. That people still support those crooks, who have lost all credibility, for a privacy app, baffles me.
Thank god we have Matrix now.