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Do you hate Signal or do you hate the west? There legitimate reasons to not like Signal but calling them hostile toward third party clients is untrue. Last time I checked Signal wasn’t proprietary.

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They have demonstrated history of asking third party clients to not use the signal name, and not use the signal network. The client that currently exists that do this do it against the wishes of the signal foundation

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They have demonstrated history of asking third party clients to not use the signal name, and not use the signal network.

The lead developer, nearly 10 years ago now, specifically asked LibreSignal to stop. A single event does not make a demonstrated history.

The client that currently exists that do this do it against the wishes of the signal foundation

If you have evidence to back this claim, I would like to see it so I can stop spreading misinformation.

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In the Libra signal issue that you linked to, they made it clear they don’t want third-party clients talking to signal servers

You’re free to use our source code for whatever you would like under the terms of the license, but you’re not entitled to use our name or the service that we run.

If you think running servers is difficult and expensive (you’re right), ask yourself why you feel entitled for us to run them for your product.

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