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Re:Signal Foundation by confounded on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @04:09PM (#16432993)
The phone number is the contact discovery mechanism on Signal. If you don’t want that, you don’t want Signal.
Re:Signal Foundation by 21 on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @04:31PM (#16433164)
Me and the persons I want to communicate with are perfectly capable of finding eachother through other means - ids, qr codes, ...

At the same time, maybe I don't want everybody who has my phone number to see that I am on Signal.