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Molly - a better signal
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this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2023
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I don't understand. What makes Molly more trustworthy than Signal, if they both use the same central sever? The website doesn't really provide much data.
It has a completely Foss option and reenables pin codes
It also has a F-droid repo which makes it much easier for me to use
The database is encrypted
How does that work, though? It's the same servers and protocols, right? So it would verify with an sms. Or is Molly not compatible with Signal (Molly users talking with Signal users), and I'm just completely misunderstanding the statement of being a hardened Signal?
I had mistaken molly for a different signal fork. Molly just uses an encrypted local db that doesn't rely solely on the OS encryption method.
Ok, so besides being mostly FOSS (Molly) or all FOSS (Molly-FOSS), the only difference, is that Molly encrypts your db on top of the laughably easy to decrypt Signal db encryption and OS encryption? Wouldn't that make push notifications impossible, though?
You get notifications but you don't see the sender of the message or the content. At least I haven't found an option to enable that.