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Distribute APK through torrent
Sorry for posting a non bug question here, I don't know other place which suit this better.
Can we distribute all of those session client installer through a more government firewall blocking resistant way? Like through torrenting? When I need to send the latest installer to my friends or relatives, I used to fire up miniserve but it's kinda cumbersome. If there is official torrent or even better RSS to follow, it will be easier.
It might make sense to have it available via a lokinet website in some way? Maybe we will integrate CI to build and distribute it the same way as other oxen related releases in the future. Could be a nice idea anyway to increase the availability
It might make sense to have it available via a lokinet website in some way? Maybe we will integrate CI to build and distribute it the same way as other oxen related releases in the future. Could be a nice idea anyway to increase the availability
Then how do they access lokinet in the first place without reaching someone for the lokinet client?
It might make sense to have it available via a lokinet website in some way? Maybe we will integrate CI to build and distribute it the same way as other oxen related releases in the future. Could be a nice idea anyway to increase the availability
we could do it via bittorrent over lokinet too
this issue is actually quite easy to do using BEP 0019, each release we can make a torrent that adds a webseed via github (if they allow it)
It might make sense to have it available via a lokinet website in some way? Maybe we will integrate CI to build and distribute it the same way as other oxen related releases in the future. Could be a nice idea anyway to increase the availability
we could do it via bittorrent over lokinet too
Yeah it would tie alternate session discoverability to lokinet via a pretty hard dependency which would probably be an issue for most mobile clients
For anyone waiting Session to provide an official solution, currently I'm telling my relatives to use F-Droid with a regional mirror hosted by a university as a workaround.
Check if there is an available mirror for you here: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/mirror-monitor
Reference: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Running_a_Mirror/
I'm not sure if that would include the Session F-Droid repo which is external to the main repo, is there any difference with using the repo described here https://github.com/oxen-io/session-fdroid ? Or are you referring to github being blocked as a specific issue as well
I'm not sure if that would include the Session F-Droid repo which is external to the main repo, is there any difference with using the repo described here https://github.com/oxen-io/session-fdroid ? Or are you referring to github being blocked as a specific issue as well
Yeah, Google and GitHub are often blocked together.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/network.loki.messenger.fdroid/
This fdroid version doesn't have FCM for fast notification, but since Google is blocked it doesn't matter anyway.