alt Hacker NewsI literally included a screenshot that shows you can setup backups in a directory on your device and then use your own backup solution.
Signal is not holding you hostage.
I literally included a screenshot that shows you can setup backups in a directory on your device and then use your own backup solution.
Signal is not holding you hostage.
Yes, if your only device is a single Android phone you can do that. You can’t, however, use that backup to populate your message history on other platforms.
I’ve already lost message history consistency because one of my devices was offline for too long. The messages are there on my other device, but Signal refuses to let me copy my data from one of my devices to another. Signal is, quite literally, worse at syncing message history than IRC — at least with IRC I can set up a bouncer and have a consistent view of history on all of my devices, but there’re no Signal bouncers.