Textnow.com VS Molly (Signal fork)

Textnow.com is one example for online texting, and I bet you could use it on public wifi. You can use a virtual phone number (VOIP) without fees from the site. Just hope this can help a little. Source: 10 months ago

Have an independent phone service from others. You can get a SIM card for $5 U.S. (price at time of this writing) an unlocked phone -phone not linked to a phone carrier service - at textnow.com or you can get the free phone app from Google's Play Store or the Apple Store at https://www.textnow.com/downloads. If you have an locked phone (phone tied to a phone carrier service), than you may be able to ask a customer... Source: 10 months ago

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I recently moved to Texas from SF. I have 3 phone numbers with out of state area codes: my cell phone with https://www.h2owireless.com/ (which uses AT&T), a google voice, and a textnow.com phone number. Source: 12 months ago

There are apps like textnow.com that will give you a free phone number with free texting. You could use that to text her from a different number. If she responds you'll know that your number was blocked on her phone. Source: about 1 year ago

Check out https://molly.im/. It's a hardened Signal fork with one version stripping the google dependencies out of it. Push notifications work flawlessly even with battery optimization enabled. Source: about 1 year ago

The one benefit is that we now have no reason NOT to use Molly (the hardened version of Signal). Previously I didn't just because of sms. https://molly.im/. Source: about 1 year ago

Hi, you can add the repository in fdroid of a fork of signal, Molly Molly , you have a FOSS version. Source: about 1 year ago

Signal uses Curve25519, AES-256, and HMAC-SHA256 for its e2e encryption. So unless you believe those algorithms are insecure, there's no reason to think that their server setup is a compromise on your messages' security. Fear of "future decryption" applies equally to all forms of encrypted communication, regardless of which servers the messages go through. And since AES-256 is known to resist quantum computing... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

I don't know if they are technically allowed but https://molly.im exists. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago