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[–] gianni@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Waterfox, CalyxOS, Signal, the JPEG-XL team, GNOME

[–] Hopscotch@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Just FYI, Signal (Open Whisper Systems) is not FOSS-friendly. The server-side software is not open source, they refuse to federate with other Signal implementations, and they are unfriendly to forks. See:

[–] Hopscotch@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I recommend using Molly instead if you need to communicate with Signal users. Note, the Molly-FOSS flavor excludes proprietary Google libraries entirely.

If you are interested in trying an alternative that is unrelated to Signal, I suggest looking at SimpleX Chat.