Update Molly entry, remove/discourage Molly-FOSS

The RTC guide currently recommends Molly (The Best Private Instant Messengers - Privacy Guides). It mentions the two Molly versions, that being Molly and Molly-FOSS.

However, with recent Molly release v7.68.5-1, Molly-FOSS is deprecated since both versions are now unified into a fully FOSS Molly app (https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android/releases/tag/v7.68.5-1), with UnifiedPush support as well as FOSS Firebase/Google notification libraries. The description should be updated but still mention UnifiedPush.

In fact, recommending Molly-FOSS may be inadvisable since it is no longer updated.

The guide also mentions public MollySocket instances, but I found these very difficult to find, as there isn’t a public list. Should consider making one, with e.g. https://molly.adminforge.de/ and https://molly.notify.dykes.ca/.

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This release unifies the previous Molly and Molly-FOSS apps into a single fully FOSS app. All proprietary dependencies (including the Play Services SDK) have been removed, while FCM push notifications continue to work via a fully open-source implementation. The dual build variants have been consolidated into one FOSS build.

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The updated article should probably still mention Molly-FOSS to warn people from using it.

Regarding the MollySocket servers, there’s also https://mollysocket.yourdevice.ch/ and https://molly.freeyourtech.org/.

Yes, we should correct the page to simply list Molly rather than the variants which no longer exist. You are however misunderstanding what actually happened. Molly has always used only a single package name im.molly.app which could be seamlessly updated to and from either variant to the other. Now that there is only a single unified Molly release, that is what you will get when updating, regardless of which version you previously used.

Release v7.68.5-1 · mollyim/mollyim-android · GitHub
Users with an existing installation of either Molly or Molly-FOSS can install this release as a normal update. No migration or user action is required.

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Just to confirm: I was using the FOSS repo and I don’t have to change my repo or do anything at all, correct? And the same would be true even if I were using the non-FOSS repo?

Yeah, still working.

“If you have either Molly or Molly-FOSS installed, just update like usual. No migration needed.

In this case, I think there is no need to warn anyone about Molly-FOSS because it will still get updates

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