Molly - a better signal

Nothing improves a fully functional messenger like not being cross-platform

A truly better signal is one that's not using a centralized service.

Yes. You're right. When you make a post you probably should give a body to it rather than just a link to a project. Why do you think it's a better signal? Otherwise people aren't going to find it super useful

Molly added multi-device support, including secondary *Android* devices - phones, tablets, etc.

Now if someone could make a desktop app (perhaps using Qt or some similar cross-platform toolkit) that isn’t Electron bloatware, for all the people who don’t have a few spare CPU cores and gigabytes of RAM to spend on a messaging client.

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.

I've been using Molly on my GrapheneOS phone for about a year. It's been pretty great so far.

This is actually more than welcome. I never understood why you could have your signal on your phone and ipad, but not on two phones. Applaud molly to do so!

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The RAM shredding feature seems kind of silly to me, but I don't know the details. Ideally the operating system should clear pages before giving them to other applications... While I can see the appeal in also doing it in the application, it seems kinda wasteful, and I wouldn't trust the application to do a good job of that anyway. If the point is to prevent the app itself from leaking private keys on a buffer overflow or whatever... I guess I can see the value of that, but I'd rather see mitigations for the buffer overflows highlighted instead. I guess this just makes me a little suspicious of the actual value provided by the app.

A signal of hope

Are there any downsides to Molly vs vanilla app?

This post once contained a bad take about Signal in service of a not particularly funny gag. It has been removed.