https://molly.im/

My wife and I use Signal with each other. She also uses Graphene on her Pixel. Both were her choice. And now she wants to go further down the FOSS rabbit hole. I warned her it was deep. She's totally onboard.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/releases

Though I do wish they showcased this on the main website

Molly is a fork that also has a FOSS version with proprietary blobs removed. They also have their own F-droid repo if you're not interested in the github repo.

Do you? i thought they had an apk available to install.

Besides Molly through F-Droid you can also get it through Obsidian from GitHub which I believe comes with a self updater anyways.

I also use Delta over Signal for my own reasons, but heads up:

Nah, download Aurora Store from F-Droid, now you have degoogled access to the Play Store.

BUT a word of warning:

You still have to be careful of what you download, it usually lists known trackers to help with that. And "requires google play services" is often actually not true, some things that claim that work fine or maybe just don't give notifications.

You don't REALLY but they also don't make it easy to use anything else.

If you do want to use it, there's a security focused fork called Molly on f-droid. You'll have to enable their repository though.

I'll take crypto over phone number identifiers

That part makes sense - Google Messages is the only RCS-compatible Messaging App. Though I don't think SMS is an acceptable fallback these days anyway. Not encrypted, goes through your carrier.

With the link, I was just showing what the difference was and how much your really not missing unless your concerned with certain features. Also, how the hell is that AI? It looks like a regular general blog post to me, where are you getting the AI part from?

I’m on a degoogled device, you don’t have RCS unless you’re using MicroG and gets an app that uses it. I don’t want to use it and for some reason, regardless of turning RCS on/off, messages are not working properly, so I decided to pick Delta Chat. it’s easy to use, straightforward and I direct everyone to one place. What’s the fucking problem?

Signal uses the google play store. I would have to use microG to use it and I don’t want to do that. What’s the problem, with that?

I also picked Delta chat because in the states, we have been having serious issues lately with Cellular power outages. I still want to connect with my family if, god forbid we have a complete blackout. I know as well there are other messaging apps for that case as well.

You people on this freaking app annoy the shit out if me, and get so easily triggered, when someone doesn’t pick the same apps, applications, products or procedures when using FOSS. Its fucking annoying honestly. FOSS is fucking FOSS for a reason

everyone, google, apple, the government, your cell provider, their mother, and their 5th cousin twice removed can intercept and view your messages

Uhhhh nope, just the carrier(s) (and the government)