this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2023
215 points (96.1% liked)

Fediverse

17788 readers
24 users here now

A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.

Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".

Getting started on Fediverse;

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml
wakest@lemmy.ml
215
Sup is a New Messaging App by the Creator of Pixelfed (wedistribute.org)
submitted 1 year ago by deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
87 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

A new messaging app is in development, and the project is described as "an open source WhatsApp for the Fediverse."

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Lucia@eviltoast.org 7 points 1 year ago

Seems you edited your comment to add new points. Lemmy doesn't notify users about changes to comments/posts they replied to, unfortunately.

Phone numbers required for now. Usernames potentially on the horizon per sms removal update.

Good to know. I prefer to never use my phone number for sign ups.

Server side code is open source and available at Signal Server Github.

They seem to put a lot of effort to centralize their app though - you can't setup your own server and talk to other signal users.

Android has an apk download so you dont need Google Play.

Yes, but you need to figure out how to verify signature keys on android + manual updates, it's just inconvinent if you compare it to F-Droid Signal devs so dislike for no good reason.