Is it still viable to use Signal for privacy in 2026? It’s centralized, and has had many suspicious occurrences in the past.(Unopen source server code, careless whisper exploit which is still active as far as I know, and the whole mobile coin situation.)

Thoughts?

  • semEnglish
    6•6 hours ago

    Shit these are great features. I had never heard of it before.

    Molly is an independent Signal fork for Android with improved features:

    Fully FOSS Contains no proprietary blobs, unlike Signal

    Encrypted Protects database with Passphrase Encryption

    Multi-Device Pair multiple devices to a single account

    Material You Extra theme that follows your device palette

    UnifiedPush Ungoogled notification system

    Automatic Locking When you are gone for a set period of time

    RAM Shredding Securely shreds sensitive data

    Tor Support Supports SOCKS proxy and Tor via Orbot