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I don't use Signal because they don't release the app in F-Droid. Signal devs refuse to release the app outside of Google Play Store, which is very evil.
You can download the APK once from the website, after that it updates automatically. https://signal.org/android/apk/
I know I can. But the hostility of Signal devs to open source and F-Droid makes me uncomfortable. Why use an app with such hostility?
You can use Molly from F-Droid. They even have a full FOSS version that you can set up a self hosted notification socket for, to avoid Google Firebase.
I don't know, the GrapheneOS folks say that F-Droid is a potential security catastrophe.
You can find Molly from Accrescent (and apparently also from F-Droid if you must use that), which is not so much a security catastrophe.
I use obtainium to install it and it works flawlessly. The reason they don't publish it elsewhere is due to licences and push notifications iirc