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signal
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Second Phone, Same Signal
Exactly yeah, I used this bridge with this playbook
- Have you tried any decentralized messengers?
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Best KaiOS device for a user in the US?
I personally recommend going with a Matrix client and building a bridge to your Signal account.
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Hosting Signal frontend on a local server (Like Signal desktop but through website)
OWS has historically been hostile to third party implementations outside of their clients. There are multiple unofficial options but the only one I've been looking at is the bridge with matrix, though setting up a matrix server just for this is likely overkill.
- Peer-to-Peer Encrypted Messaging
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Let’s chat about RCS
Once you have the home server set up and configured (not covered here because it's a process), clone the bridge repo (for instance mautrix-signal and follow the instructions.
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Signald: Unofficial Daemon for Interacting with Signal
Mentioned elsewhere, the list of bridges is pretty complete: https://matrix.org/bridges/, specifically I used https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-signal (and the same author's WhatsApp and SMS bridges).
the signal matrix bridge currently listed on matrix.org (https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-signal) uses signald
This is likely the one they are referring to: https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-signal/
I use it myself and it has been working perfectly for me since I switched to it.
signald
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Critical New 0-day Vulnerability in Popular Log4j Library - List of applications
Signald : https://gitlab.com/signald/signald/-/issues/259
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Signald: Unofficial Daemon for Interacting with Signal
This is neat.
I looked at the install instructions ("from source") and i while there were instructions, there was no download link for the tarball or even the git repository.
You have to click on the "gitlab" widget that shows the number of stars on the start page to get to the gitlab repository at https://gitlab.com/signald/signald
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starting a native adaptive Linux client for Signal
I've been using Signald for the last few months and then bridging it to Matrix. I think building exactly the same thing based off the Rust client is the most compelling option (and probably something I'd be interested in working on as well!). Given that a double-puppeted Signal account can be used with Matrix today, it'd be a shame to invest in Signal-specific UI. There are multiple "nearly there" Matrix clients that can work on the pinephone and others. You could even bridge libpurple to Matrix if you're into that ecosystem.
- PinePhone Beta
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Signal API
As Signal does not have a real API, it uses signald for communication with Signals server, which is also open source: https://gitlab.com/signald/signald
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Is Elon Musk right about Signal? I need your Help!
It looks like you just need a client that uses https://gitlab.com/signald/signald, and the matrix-signal bridge /u/anakinfredo posted is one of them.
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An implementation of the Signal client protocol in Rust
When I wanted to use Signal on my PinePhone and realized how restrictive Signal was in a lot of ways I started looking at Matrix. Matrix feels a lot more like what chat "should" be, if it weren't for reality - there's an existing Java client (https://gitlab.com/signald/signald) that I've used for a few weeks and been impressed with. Now I bridge my Signal account to Matrix as the first step towards migrating away.
What are some alternatives?
signal-cli - signal-cli provides an unofficial commandline, JSON-RPC and dbus interface for the Signal messenger.
axolotl - A Signal compatible cross plattform client written in Go, Rust and Vuejs
libsignal - Home to the Signal Protocol as well as other cryptographic primitives which make Signal possible.
imessage - A Matrix-iMessage puppeting bridge
gomuks - A terminal based Matrix client written in Go.
SmsMatrix - A simple SMS <--> Matrix bridge.
matrix-bifrost - General purpose bridging with a variety of backends including libpurple and xmpp.js
libsignal-service-java - A Java/Android library for communicating with the Signal messaging service.
matrix-synapse-shared-secret-auth - Shared Secret Authenticator password provider module for Matrix Synapse
semaphore - A simple (rule-based) bot library for Signal Private Messenger.
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