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hjek
on July 26, 2021
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Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts
It does. There is less incentive to work on a Signal client fork if it can't be used to interoperate with the Signal service.
growse
on July 27, 2021
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That's a bit like saying there's less incentive to work on (for example) Elasticsearch, because you can't deploy your fork on Elastic Co's official managed service. It's nonsense.
hjek
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There's a difference here between Elasticsearch and Signal, namely that that network effect is a very important factor with messaging apps.
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