Signal-TLS-Proxy VS sydent

A significant amount of people will go "huh, Signal will only work when my Netflix VPN is on, I wonder why that is". Signal won't just disappear.

In fact, Signal has a network of volunteers running special proxy services[1] to access Signal from countries with oppressive governments. Signal the company may leave, but Signal the app will try to stay relevant for as long as possible.

[1]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy

I'm using a custom podman container behind my own nginx proxy, so all I needed was to remove the api.directory.signal.org sections from the nginx.conf according to commit 461d2d1aeec601a4d62100949a227f0cef2f6154.

We've updated the proxy itself to remove references to the old domain (see https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/commit/461d2d1aeec601a4d62100949a227f0cef2f6154). If you pull the latest version, that should fix things.

Yes, https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/commit/461d2d1aeec601a4d62100949a227f0cef2f6154 resolved the issue for me (using a custom container). Thanks!

You were running this one?

I also want to use my knowledge and server power for good things. Reading about the developments and the cencorship in iran is devastating, but I stumbled across this tweet and this repo by signal to help people in iran get the word out.

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It's a bit odd to use a custom docker image, rather than the one maintained by nginx Inc though:

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/blob/main/ngin...

Vs

https://github.com/nginxinc/docker-nginx

For one, this is 5 versions behind (1.18 vs 1.23).

In general seems caddy or haproxy might be a better fit - but nginx is a perfectly fine choice I suppose.

GitHub Discussions can also be a great place for support as long as these are regularly monitored. Another option along the same lines is Discourse and the Open Source Matrix which is used by quite a few Open Source and community-based projects.

I'd love something like the Matrix [0] data model (JSON messages aggregated in an eventually-consistent chatroom CRDT) transmitted over something like simplex for metadata resistance.

[0] https://matrix.org

Matrix - I currently have my family chat on WhatsApp, but I plan to give my daughters tablets for Xmas and I want them to have a way to chat with family without needing to have a phone number or signup to WhatsApp.

Telegram isn't great for having a main topic with siloed discussions about sub-categories of things.

Slack costs a lot of money if you want searchable history.

Matrix (https://matrix.org/) is pretty bad when you get to using it. It works, but the QOL isn't up to Discord's level.

Discord is just as easy to replace as any other chat platform if they decide to sell out or destroy their product.