Signals existence was too inconvenient for oppressive governments/law enforcement, so instead they've been subverted.
* Doesn't require users to provide a phone number.
* Doesn't use centralized servers.
Hopefully Session will stay legit for a while. Just when I get most of my contacts to use Signal, Signal moves to embed a cryptocurrency in the app and starts pushing Storytime.
https://github.com/opendocument-app/OpenDocument.droid/issue...
Per F-Droid's definition of "the upstream source code is not entirely free":
https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/#UpstreamNonFree
This seems to be a case of "damned if you do; damned if you don't". Session relies on Firebase to get faster notifications from Google servers. This can be disabled in the applications preferences but changes the behavior from push-notifications to polling Session's decentralized messaging network, which makes messages notifications slower.
https://getsession.org/faq#push-notifications
For the sake of clarity it would be nice if instead of making such a vague pronouncement, F-Droid would specify precisely what about the upstream source code is not entirely free.
https://forum.f-droid.org/t/the-upstream-source-code-is-not-...