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oh wow HN is parroting this bullshit again.

Moxie and Signal didn't do anything other than asking LibreSignal politely to stop using their servers. They didn't "shut down" anything, and they have shown no interest in shutting down signal-cli/signald.

MobileCoin, the cryptocurrency that Signal incorporates and essentially sanctions, uses signald for their bot[0].

the Signal Matrix bridge has hundreds if not thousands of open source users, plus Element One and Beeper users, all using signald and not having any repercussions for years. The only 3rd party Signal client that's caught any flak from Signal that I'm aware of is LibreSignal.

also see: last time this came up[1]

[0] https://github.com/mobilecoinofficial/mobot/blob/dev/RUN.md

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27682490#27683374




Literally in that thread you cite as [1] is an additional example of a third party client being removed both from google play and github.




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