I occasional get problems with Signal, that I don’t get messages or calls, even though I have the app opened and are connected to the internet. I suppose this could hapen because I am using GrapheneOS and Signal is optimized for stock Android with normal Google Play Services. Therefore I am thinki…

I have a lot less issues with Signal when I split tunnel (allow the app to bypass my vpn).

[image] vincent: I use grapheneos and can say for sure that molly will be better in terms of notifications because it has an option to switch to unifiedpush, which works great without Google services (more specifically, they use mollysocket; you can find a server or host your own to receive noti…

They are kinda doing the same job yes, hence maybe some technical differences but it looks like it works fine too? Built-in UnifiedPush Support opened 11:26PM - 22 Nov 25 UTC (UTC) closed 07:46AM - 25 Nov 25 UTC …

If I read this correctly, Molly works with Unified Push over Sunup

Yes indeed. You asked about Sunup, hence why I linked the GH issue above that also states I would rename the issue to “builtin unifiedpush support” as Molly works with Sunup just fine Hence, you should be able to make it work with both just fine. :+1:t2:

I found on their Github that Unified Push is an direct feature [image] GitHub - mollyim/mollyim-android: Enhanced and security-focused fork of Signal. Enhanced and security-focused fork of Signal.

Yes. I am still not sure on what you want to achieve here. Want to use UnifiedPush? It is the default and will work just fine. :green_circle: Want to use Sunup? Looks like it works fine too. :green_circle:

[image] Archer: I occasional get problems with Signal, that I don’t get messages or calls, even though I have the app opened and are connected to the internet. This has been an issue for my family on stock Pixel and Samsung devices too, so I am fairly comfortable with saying it is just a Sign…

[image] ph00lt0: With Molly you add another provider to the chain of trust which adds risk, on the other hand in return get some additional privacy enhancements. On my research I found that their builds are reproducible ,and since their own changes a probably relatively small in code size, it …

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It definitely does not defeat the purpose. Your phone is a lot more secure with GrapheneOS in the first place and secondly you can still limit all the permissions, access, tracking capabilities by a lot. This narrative is an unfortunate thing that is being repeated a lot but far from true.

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