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Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging (techcrunch.com)
submitted 1 day ago by Morys@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I currently use Telegram for my friends and family, but have reluctantly come to the conclusion that the UK Government is either reaching agreement for backdoors with messaging services, or is trying its hardest to.

I'm also on Element/Matrix. Before I try to get my contacts to join me on there, should I be aware of any privacy issues or is that a good place to head?

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[–] jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can use Molly, a fork of Signal for android. It offers an alternative for push notifications.

[–] mac@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yep, I run my own mollysocket + ntfy server.

Essentially, molly socket functions as another device, when it recieves a notif, it pings your specified unified push server, which then queues up a notification for the ntfy app on your device.

You don't need to run your own unified push server, and can just use one of the main ones, but I figured I might as well.

I personally have them hosted on fly.io for free via the legacy hobby plan.

Now all I need to do is get more of my friends to message me on it 🤣

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I personally have them hosted on fly.io for free via the legacy hobby plan

Here's the link for anyone who's interested: https://github.com/pcrockett/mollysocket-fly

[–] mac@lemm.ee 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Huh I didn't know this existed. Will compare it to mine later

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Oh that's the only one I know of. I thought that this is what you're referring to.

[–] mac@lemm.ee 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Nah I rolled my own and didn't publish it so that's probably why haha.

Have you been using this one?

~~On my app I don't get rich notifications only "you may have a new message". Havent looked into it at all though, only set this up like last week~~

Lol there is a setting in molly itself for rich notifs

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 12 hours ago

Have you been using this one?

I tried it out once, but I currently don't use it, because I just run mollysocket on my own server.

On my app I don’t get rich notifications only “you may have a new message”.

That should only be the case while your Molly database is locked, because the actual messages can't be decrypted, so no message preview can be shown in the notification.