It isn’t at all. It is closed source powered by an American non-profit organization.
You can consider this organization as friendly.
They recurrently said, they would shut the gates if U.S. government/law wants them to store more than metdata (phone number+last activity date) they are storing.
you can set up your own server for your own needs as far as I know, but you’ll probably have to build your own version of the client to connect to it. there’s no decentralisation.
Is it possible to set up a signal server, or is it not completely FOSS?
@Valmond @SrMono
If you want to selfhost your own messenger, you can with Matrix or XMPP. XMPP, for ex, is the protocol used by WhatsApp and Signal.
Whaaaa, really??
It isn’t at all. It is closed source powered by an American non-profit organization. You can consider this organization as
friendly.They recurrently said, they would shut the gates if U.S. government/law wants them to store more than metdata (phone number+last activity date) they are storing.
you can set up your own server for your own needs as far as I know, but you’ll probably have to build your own version of the client to connect to it. there’s no decentralisation.