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Alright I'm gonna put a bigger effort to switch to Signal this time around and get a few friends roped in. I installed the APK just recently. I have some questions and am hoping some of y'all fedibrains would have an answer.
1. Is there any privacy difference between Signal from the Google Play store vs installing the APK from Github?
2. Given how locked down iPhones are, could that make Signal inherently less private?
3. Are calls also e2e encrypted?
4. Is it safe to put my Signal username on my bio? Or should that only ever be shared in private?
5. Can anyone with my Signal username also see what name I set as my first name?
Some of these questions might be dumb because I'm still learning the ropes. Thanks in advance!
@lenkotarski To answer your first question, I side-load as much as possible from Github and F-Droid because I don't trust Google with anything beyond its built-in apps. The downside is you'd have to check the Github page for updates periodically, because side-loaded apps don't update automatically.
@ValerieSonh Oof. No auto updates. Good point. But I guess its a small price to pay to distance from google.
@lenkotarski @ValerieSonh I use Obtainium to keep track of apps published on Github, you just add an URL of the Github page and it'll periodically check for updates and notify you
@ValerieSonh@masto.ai@noodlejetski @lenkotarski Thanks for the info! I hadn't heard of this before.