Can you link me what you’re talking about? I’m searching for it and having trouble finding the thing you’re describing. The only info I find is about their spam detection (which I already knew about but doesn’t sound like it’s the thing you’re talking about.)

I’m not aware of By code from Google it requires. What history of stealing data does signal have?

Can you explain a little more what you mean?

The only part that isn’t open source is their spam filter.

It’s not just aesthetics either. There’s some rough edges in the structure of the UI too.

Friendica needs some serious work on its ui. One reason lemmy works is because there’s lots of good third party apps.