Daniel Gultsch (@daniel@gultsch.social)
gultsch.social
Attached: 1 image I installed #Signal and #Conversations_im on a clean install of #GrapheneOS on my Pixel 4a and measured the battery impact. The results are shocking! Both messengers had only one contact: my regular phone. I used my regular phone to send messages to the Pixel 4a (which was not used for anything else over the course of the experiment). I always sent the same message via Signal and #XMPP (mixing up which app went first). In total I sent ~32 messages in intervals of 10mins to a few hours.

Interesting test. Obviously only applies when you use Signal without priviledged push notifications via FCM through Google servers.

  • @TechnicallyColors@lemm.eeEnglish
    10•5 months ago

    If you use the Molly fork with UnifiedPush support and set up a tiny mollysocket instance on a VPS or always-on server (no need for exposed ports), this problem can be patched. You can use the Conversations XMPP client or ntfy to redirect UnifiedPush notifications into Molly, and it won’t need to use Signal’s normal costly notification scheme. I have no idea why Signal has not implemented UnifiedPush support directly yet; it’s a very active pain point for most users: one, two, three.

  • scopsEnglish
    1•5 months ago

    I’d also be curious how it scales as you add more contacts. I don’t think Signal does presence monitoring, does it?

  • pootriarchEnglish
    1•5 months ago

    When I installed Signal it complained that I didn’t have Google Play Services and fell back to websockets. But my phone is boring, I do have Google services. Could I have something in a firewall config that made it pick wrong? Is it using a different checking mechanism from all my other apps that go through FCM?

    • poVoqOPM
      2•5 months ago

      No idea. Why not use XMPP? It’s better anyways 😜

      • pootriarch
        1•5 months ago

        i do have. and my ‘sms’ goes over it. but i can’t make everyone come to me. (i did abandon the ones who are whatsapp-only tho)