Twidere-Android VS Signal-Android

It's worth noting that Reddit's own app uses their official API. The whole thing is OAuth2. They could have easily just said "Only Reddit Gold users can use external apps" and have avoided all this fracas.

Now, it would take very little for someone to dig around and find the official Reddit API keys (OpenID/OAuth2 client key/secret) and just impersonate the official Reddit apps. I would never suggest that someone do some googling and discover threads like https://github.com/TwidereProject/Twidere-Android/issues/147... where such things are discussed.

Twidere still works great for me, but you have to apply this change (that's easy to do, don't worry)

Some thirdparty clients for Twitter still work, I'm using Twidere, but you have to trick it a little bit.

An issue has been posted about this.

Twidere X (version 1.6.0): Next generation of Twidere

Facebook - Tinfoil, Frost, SlimSocial* Facebook Messenger - Instagram - Barinsta*, Reddit - Infinity, Slide Twitter - Fritter, Twidere, Slim Social for Twitter* YouTube - NewPipe, SkyTube LinkedIn - Pintrest - Snapchat - TikTok - Twitch - Vimeo - Tumblr - Flickr -

There is also Twidere https://github.com/TwidereProject/Twidere-Android

² alternative apps for Twitter, twidere, for reddit, slide, for Instagram, barinsta

Haven't used Signal FOSS, but as it happens Molly bas just implemented OSM support, perhaps when it lands you might have better luck with it. Anyway, is there no issue tracker for that fork? I tried looking in their repo and found it disabled

Try using the Signal FOSS version from https://www.twinhelix.com/apps/signal-foss/

Yeah I followed that whole story. Since then some forks have been created that do not care what Signal Foundation thinks about using their servers. Molly and Signal-FOSS for example, both compatible to regular Signal. Those two forks will not keep SMS support, Molly never had it, and Signal-FOSS will most likely drop it because they think it's too much work to keep it while staying compatible and up to date. I hope there is going to be another fork specifically dedicated to keeping SMS support. We'll see.

You can get a completely open source version without the Google stuff here: https://www.twinhelix.com/apps/signal-foss/

Signal FOSS removes proprietary google blobs https://www.twinhelix.com/apps/signal-foss/

Signal - Molly , Foss-Signal

Maybe they had outdated info from when the server software was not updated for a long time. Or, it's regarding the dependencies on closed-source Google Mobile Services and Firebase libraries, though those can be removed... and have been in this fork.