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What are your experiences with Molly? (github.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl to c/signal@lemmy.ml

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I've been wanting to link my Android tablet to Signal for ages now and recently came across Molly as an alternative app to use, which allows this possibility.

To import a backup from Signal you must use a matching or newer version of Molly, though, and where Molly is 6.41.3-2, Signal is 6.43.2, so I'll have to wait a bit before I can switch, I suppose. Looking at the open issues on Github though, it seems linked devices aren't all that stable yet.

How are your experiences with Molly, if you have them?

(I came across this disclaimer too: "unofficial forks are not supposed to use Signal’s infrastructure so Molly violates Signal’s TOS".)

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[–] KraBa@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I'm using molly for a few months now. No problems really. Using it to talk to a signal user. What I did notice is that there are less "wifi low, switching to data" messages now. Had those regularly while using the official Signal app, even with full wifi reception. Since I switched this happened only once or twice.

Also significantly less times that calls were ended when being on a call with somebody over night and just letting it run to continue speaking the next day. With the signal app it happened a lot, call ended and signal closed without any notification. With molly that never happened so far.

So tl;dr: Can only recommend