@bram oh this also repeats the standard lie that unofficial clients aren't allowed to connect to the official signal servers. this is both false from a legal/TOS standpoint, as well as objectively practically incorrect (many people use third party clients with the official signal servers).
please stop spreading this toxic lie about signal.
@sneak Lmao what are you talking about?
Moxie Marlinspike literally shut down LibreSignal because he didn't want third party apps to make use of the Signal services.
https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issuecomment-217211165
@bram what you said and what i said are compatible.
the following things are true:
- moxie doesn't want 3p apps using the official servers
- moxie has no right to stop legitimate users from using the official servers with 3p clients (they are governed by the tos which does not ban clients)
- moxie has no right to stop forks of signal that point at official servers (the code is foss)
- moxie used *the signal trademark* to stop libresignal because he doesn't like 3p clients
@bram in fact there are several 3p clients that use the official signal servers!
