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Comment by grishka

> What "proprietary blobs" does Signal have?

As they say in the Github readme, FCM and Google Maps.

FCM doesn't technically require a blob — it's just that Google wants you to think it does. I reverse engineered their library and it turned out to be a criminally over-engineered wrapper around two broadcast receivers. So, the Mastodon app is proudly the first app ever to both support FCM push notifications, and be 100% open-source.

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