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Introducing Signal Secure Backups (signal.org)

submitted 1 week ago by ray@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] zelnix@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One of the signal Devs has said they've already tested restoring cross platform with this new format

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

I had to track down the comment since no one linked it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=45171576

Hopefully they finish stabilizing cross-platform backups through the new service and port local backups to the new format in a reasonable timeframe, although I'm not gonna hold my breath. I still think it's completely ridiculous that this (really basic tbh) feature took so long.