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Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage by kgraves on Thursday March 14, 2019 @06:29AM (#19387949)
My main gripe with Signal is that it requires your phone number and you cannot setup your own instance.

A major turn off for me.

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Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage by reitanqild on Thursday March 14, 2019 @06:31AM (#19387963)
FTR and as a user of Telegram who has often recommended it:

Telegram also requires your phone number.

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Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage by yorick on Thursday March 14, 2019 @07:10AM (#19388149)
Telegram does not require your phone number, you can set it up with just a user name.
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Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage by GranPC on Thursday March 14, 2019 @07:19AM (#19388199)
No, you can share just your username, but you need a number to sign up.
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