In the past, if you broke or lost your phone, your Signal message history was gone. This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal. Think family photos, sweet messages, important documents, or anything else you don’t want to lose forever. This explains wh...
  • arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    While this is good since it provides some revenue beyond donations and also simplifies data backups, I think it’s kind of ridiculous that they still have not implemented a way to restore backups cross-platform (it’s just left as something they plan to do in the future). Like, is it really that hard to just export and import a file in a standard format?

  • Hirom@beehaw.org
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    7 hours ago

    Nice. I hope it makes Signal suitable for public official required to archive communications.

    Currently signal users probably have no backup, or use a Signal fork that support archiving in a less secure way.

    • magikmw@piefed.socialEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      If I understand this right, it’s not really it. If you delete messages in the chat, they will also disappear from the backup as it gets uploaded again.

      This doesn’t seem to be an archiving solution.