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Comment by Daviey | Hacker News Reader

Telegram and Whatsapp are pretty interchangeable on feature set TBH. The support for bots in Telegram is nice, but Whatsapp currently has more user share - which is crucial.

Another interchangeable from user experience is Signal. I'm seeing more growth in Signal, which is great - and I trust it more than Telegram and Whatsapp combined.

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I kind of lost my trust for Signal when moxie said it was not OK[1] that a fully free and open source fork of their client (built to remove the Google Play Services depency back then) was using their servers.

I've read the discussion and I find moxie's arguments pretty weak in this matter.

[1] https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...

EDIT: spacing

How is it weak to say that he doesn't want this because he doesn't want to have to worry about supporting third party apps on his servers?

As the github user mimi89999 pointed, moxie wouldn't have to support LibreSignal directly, it behaves like a normal Signal client and there would probably be no impact in his servers at all because there was a very limited number of LibreSignal users.

Ah! But what if the non-official client causes a DoS of the server....

... then write server software that isn't vulnerable.

I have to agree... mandating what client software is used is a bit disappointing from moxie... I thought the world learned this lesson from Pidgin etc.

Next he'll say he only wants to support Chrome for their website.

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