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submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Only the cool kids know where to get FOSS.

somepusher

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Is signal foss?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

~~Their backend is closed source.~~

[EDIT: Incorrect, see below]

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

On Wikipedia it says the servers are open source but spam prevention is proprietary.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for the correction. That's pretty rad. Now I'm wondering if that's a wrong memory or if it was released in the last few years.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

There was a fuss a while back since the released source appeared to be waaaay out of date compared to what was being used.

They came out and said that they wanted the usernames feature to be developed fully before it got pushed public. Which they then did.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

It's source-available