Molly advertises itself as a “hardened version of Signal,” & its FOSS variant is the same without proprietary dependencies. TwinHelix’s FOSS Signal fork goes further, adding OSM support instead of GMaps. Are these forks trustworthy, & are they worth using for added security compared to mainline?
The official Signal app can do this too for notifications? This isn’t unique to Signal-FOSS or Molly-FOSS, the base Signal app supports notifications without Google Play as well, which I use myself.