If You Must Use Signal, Use Molly
12 days ago
- #security
- #messaging
- #privacy
- Signal messenger has centralized control, metadata collection, and vendor lock-in issues.
- Molly is an independent Signal fork for Android that addresses Signal's shortcomings.
- Molly features include encryption at rest with user-set passphrases and Argon2id KDF.
- Molly supports UnifiedPush for notifications, avoiding reliance on Google services.
- Molly offers Tor support, RAM shredding, automatic locking, and automatic backups.
- Installation of MollySocket on OpenBSD is detailed for self-hosted push notifications.
- Molly is recommended for those needing Signal but wanting enhanced privacy and features.