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Molly - a better signal (molly.im)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't understand. What makes Molly more trustworthy than Signal, if they both use the same central sever? The website doesn't really provide much data.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    The database is encrypted

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    How does that work, though? It's the same servers and protocols, right? So it would verify with an sms. Or is Molly not compatible with Signal (Molly users talking with Signal users), and I'm just completely misunderstanding the statement of being a hardened Signal?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I had mistaken molly for a different signal fork. Molly just uses an encrypted local db that doesn't rely solely on the OS encryption method.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ok, so besides being mostly FOSS (Molly) or all FOSS (Molly-FOSS), the only difference, is that Molly encrypts your db on top of the laughably easy to decrypt Signal db encryption and OS encryption? Wouldn't that make push notifications impossible, though?

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