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8 days agoFor Android they have reproducible builds to verify that they are using the source code from their public repo for the app distributed via Google’s Play Store.
Regarding the server software, it’s not that easy but because of the Signal protocol you can be sure that messages are e2e encrypted and authenticated. They also have the sealed sender feature which hides the identity of the sender. So it shouldn’t really matter what software a server is using.
So there is now a C-Button which opens the new Game Chat, which requires a Nintendo Switch Online subscription. This means if you don’t pay for their subscription, you will have a dedicated button on your controller which will most likely open a popup that tells you to buy their subscription. Great, I love it…