The Signal Beta desktop app takes up 350MB on Linux. (The new release, at least).

Really need to figure out how to install it with a system wide electron.

Does anybody know if one can program a chatbot for the signalapp?

Ideally in Go or Rust would be nice

Maybe with signal-cli? (Java)

https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli

Which is created against Moxie's will, I might add.

Can you elaborate? It is built with a fork of a library written by the Signal team. This fork is not upstreamed because moxie does not like the code iirc, but afaik he did not come to the project and tell them to stop like he did for LibreSignal.

I've been waiting for desktop video calling for years! This is the first official news I've heard of it, I will definitely join the beta test.

Very glad to see this feature coming to desktop!