> vs only waking up on an FCM push notification like the regular app
FWIW you can actually do the FOSS version of this now with UnifiedPush support (rolled out in Molly a while back).
It's a massive saver on battery life but it does require that you have a server set up to forward notifications to your unifiedpush distributor.
can you install fdroid from the graphene store? signal is available in there: https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=46082592
To be clear, Signal is not available from F-Droid. The above link is about a fourth party publishing a Signal build in an f-droid-compatible repository.
No, and I don't want to rely on f-droid for anything important due to their shoddy security practices (+ as a sibling comment says there's no official signal binaries on fdroid)
For apps i do install from f-droid repos (official or otherwise) i prefer https://github.com/Droid-ify/client
i don't use any of the enhancements, but it does receive notifications over the websocket it keeps open in the background vs only waking up on an FCM push notification like the regular app
i wonder if the supply chain risk of having a second entity (that signs the apks!) involved is really worth it to anyone... hope signal can be published on Accrescent or similar someday :p
[0] https://accrescent.app/