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> It limits the damage that some decisions can cause, but exacerbates others. Signal only allows the first-party client to connect to its network; if the developers were legally compelled to add a backdoor into that client, users would have few options.

Huh? I send messages to my friends daily using the API via https://gitlab.com/thefinn93/signald which is definitely third party.

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Moxie has explicitly said several times that third-party clients connecting to the main Signal servers are actively not supported and has threatened to start blocking them or enforcing the Signal trademark if they get big enough. (I tried to find a link to the exact comments he's made, but the threads involved have hundreds of comments and I'm on my phone -- he said this in one of the huge Google Play issues.)

Yup - you're probably thinking of this one and the other similar comments in the (mess of a) thread: https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...

Makes it pretty clear that OWS does not want people using third-party clients with the official Signal servers.

Huh, that sucks. Good to know, thanks!

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