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Signal usage survey, what versions do you use? Wanted for potential Flatpak adoption (community.signalusers.org)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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There are big wishes for Signal to adopt the perfectly working Flatpak.

This will make Signal show up in the verified subsection of Flathub, it will improve trust, allow a central place for bug reports and support and ease maintenance.

Flatpak works on pretty much all Distros, including the ones covered by their current "Linux = Ubuntu" .deb repo.

To make a good decision, we need to have some statistics about who uses which package.

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[–] 48 points 2 years ago (3 children)

How about putting it on F-droid? That won't happen as they ship to much proprietary software.

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

    Signal wants to provide updates themselfs to make sure they are fast in case of big security bug. F-Droid can lag behind to provide new version of app.

    But they should at least provide F-Droid repo.

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

    F-droid is only a few days behind at most. They are arguing against F-droid with evidence that's out of date. I think it has more to do with laziness than anything.

    The good news is that Molly exists.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Laziness is a very negative way of putting it. Another would be prioritisation - with limited budget, what is the best way to get as many people as possible to have their communications encrypted?

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

    Right, stickers and gifs are more important than security and privacy

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    It could be both. A highly private app that nobody uses provides less privacy than an app that's only somewhat less private (i.e. has to be downloaded via Google Play or via a self-updating APK from their website instead of F-Droid) that millions of people use.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    with limited budget, what is the best way to get as many people as possible to have their communications encrypted?

    They could dump their existing code that let users SMS non-Signal users and upgrade it automatically to E2EE if the other number has Signal. Oh wait, that would worth adoption, nevermind.

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