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

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Would Molly enable me to use Signal on two Android phones at the same time?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yep, I'm doing it right now. I have the official Signal app on my main phone, then Molly on the second one.

I have to say, one thing that happened to me; I used to use Molly for both phones, but I would suddenly stop receiving messages on my main phone for some unknown reason. I would receive them on e.g. my computer client, but not my main phone. So I switched back to Signal as the main driver and Molly as the linked device..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Great, thanks for your reply. Could you briefly say how the setup works? Can I install Molly and then chose "linked device" or such in the setup process or is it more complicated?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yep, I don't remember the exact wording, but when you install Molly on your other device, you can select to use as a linked device, or restore a back-up, or register from scratch. Of course don't enter your phone number, that will overwrite your account. There should just be a link on the main screen to link to your main.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I tried it and yes, it is that easy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The last time I did it, I was euphoric and more empathetic than I normally am.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I used it so I could be logged in on 2 phones simultaneously. Worked well for that, but aside from that just felt like normal Signal I think

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Not very good. On my Moto E32 it's not possible to create a password for the encrypted database, the field were i have to confirm my password is unreachable.