messaging apps and GrapheneOS

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Wire

Wire : has also been recommended by Snowden, but not held by him in as high regard as Signal. They do not technically currently support phones that do not have Google Play Service but they used to approximately 5 years ago and as such, they do have code that allows them to work on GrapheneOS to some extent and their customer service rep has indicated to me that they are in the process of supporting deGoogled phones again. The only issue I have really found is that you cannot use it with older Androids and it does not successfully connect to wire's server on boot. I have to Force Stop it and manually start it to get it to connect to wire's servers.

#Communication #Group Chat & Notifications #Messaging 14 social mentions

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Signal

Signal: long touted by Snowden as the gold standard and indeed have had very little issues using it on GrapheneOS. The only bug I have found is if you attempt to take a picture in the app in landscape view, it doesn't scale the picture correctly and Signal will not help resolve issues that occur on GrapheneOS cause "they do not officially support it".

#Communication #Group Chat & Notifications #Messaging 180 social mentions

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Element.io

Element/Riot.im - The notification badges issue occurred sometimes where it indicated there were unread messages when there were none, but they only occurred on a friend's Huawei so not sure if that was an element issue or a Huawei issue. But I will note that unlike Signal and Wire which is always polling their respective servers for new messages, Element instead polls every 5-10 seconds (customizable) for new messages. It did not always auto-start on boot and I had to manually start it myself. One further thing to note is element stores all messages in the cloud but it is also end-to-end encrypted.

#Group Chat & Notifications #Communication #Chat 1 social mentions