I mean long before that with one of the 3rd party apps they used to federate their own server with signal iirc.
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einkorn@feddit.org 4 weeks agoAlso I believe they used to have federation but all evidence of this seems to have been wiped from the internet.
They never had.
The talk about federation originated when the EU demanded interoperability from gatekeeper software i.e. Whatsapp. Signal said on day one they wouldn’t do from their end because it would mean lowering security.
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
einkorn@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Well, that must be waaaaaaay back then. I’ve been using Signal for quite a while now, and I am not sure what you mean then.
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Dr GPT found something on it. It was a federation between Silent Phone 2014-2015 (a secure messaging app developed by Silent Circle, a company co-founded by Phil Zimmermann, the creator of PGP) and TextSecure (the precursor to signal).
einkorn@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
That really is ancient in terms of the internet! Thanks for checking.
racc@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
There was LibreSiganal once but it got shut down by Signal. It’s quite old. This was like 10 years ago.