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Such as?
The security risk their signing process introduces. My guess would be Signal wants a 0% chance of a malicious client being distributed, hence why they only allow direct apk downloads (which self-updates, essentially making an F Droid build obsolete) and Google Play. I would also guess this is why Signal only packages a deb package (if anyone knows a better way to run Signal desktop on fedora [besides the flatpak] than my current solution of spinning up a Mint Virtual Machine [maybe distrobox?] please let me know!) and literally has no official support for rpm based distributions.
The client app is FOSS other than the Google blob for notifications. The server SW is partly closed source because they say that is needed to prevent spammers.
cope. all they need to do is set up an F-Droid. typical that this is still isn't answered, as usual