Offer a bundled MollySocket service

[ghost]

Is there an existing request for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Feature description

It would be nice if Molly could offer UP functionality out of the box through a bundled MollySocket server. Such a public server could be airgapped for better security.

Offering such a service at volume would bring economies of scale and the community at large should be able to cover the costs of server deployment.

Given the various known issues with FCM notifications and the problem of each app installed on a device needing its own WebSocket connection, UP becomes the only scalable and practical solution going forward for all open source apps. By allowing users to start using UP with Molly today, this community would be charting the path forward for the entire open source world on Android.

This would also resolve #126

[jayb-g]

Even better, if Signal is willing to support UP - same as it supports FCM/websockets, it would be FCM/UP/websockets, then the battery drain issue goes away(mostly) and molly gets UP support automatically.

Maybe we should create FR on Signal for same.

[jayb-g]

@ghost while not bundled within mollyim-android, you can still setup and use mollysocket-fly for free. This fixes high battery usage by molly(related to websocket connection).

[MrCybertux]

i know a public service it is the only one i could find but maybe someone else has seen some?

https://molly.adminforge.de/

[jayb-g]

@MrCybertux how to use it?

[MrCybertux]

@MrCybertux how to use it?

Waht do you mean you add it in Notifications -> unified push -> Server URL but i noticed it blocks TOR IPs

[jayb-g]

Nvm. I don't see that option as I already have it setup with UP. I'd have to disable and reenable it to see the said options.

[MrCybertux]

@jayb-g i really have a hard time getting what you are talking about.
The options are always there:

[jayb-g]

@MrCybertux I have it on air gapped mode. When enabled, it replaces the Account ID and Server URL options with Server Parameters

[The-Nickname]

Maybe we should create FR on Signal for same.

And for the being until someone has done that you/we could create a "Feature Request" post in Signal's Forum, or up-vote this related post.

Edit: And well there already is signalapp/Signal-Android#13290 (comment) by @ghost ;P
So maybe a reply to that issue and a pull request to the upstream Signal repo would be appropriate.

[Kasi07]

i know a public service it is the only one i could find but maybe someone else has seen some?

https://molly.adminforge.de/

I also found: https://mollysocket.yourdevice.ch/. They also have a ntfy instance at https://ntfy.yourdevice.ch/.
I haven't tried them, though.