What are everyone's thoughts on Molly, advertised as a hardened fork of Signal?
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2025
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To be even more critical of Session, it uses Oxen which is like someone took Onion routing and decided to dress it up as a cryptocurrency grift
I'm OOTL, why do people want an alternative to Signal? It thought that was the good app
It's centralized, it doesn't officially allow 3rd-party clients, it requires a phone number, and the desktop app kinda sucks. I use it anyway, but it could be better.
I don't know about other people, but the only thing I don't like about Signal is that it is centralized. It seems to be the only option to actually get everything right for security though from what I hear.
That's a reasonable thing to dislike about it.
I dislike that I can't reply to another message with a sticker.
I also dislike that, despite having admin access, I can't delete abusive messages left in groups for anyone but myself. That makes it unsuitable for building communities.
The replying with stickers bugs me so much, your pack has been helpful too. Hopefully we'll eventually be able to edit created packs though.
[…] it uses the X25519 public key… as a symmetric key, for AES-GCM.
[…] anyone that knows the public key can decrypt it.
Ouch.