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Re:Mastodon and Keybase by dcbadacd on Monday April 15, 2019 @06:29PM (#19669476)
The phone number requirement is a killing feature for me, makes it useless. I wouldn't put it even close to the UX bar Keybase has for me.
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Re:Mastodon and Keybase by 0xb100db1ade on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @01:11AM (#19671285)
I do, to some extent agree.

I think the idea is that privacy != anonymity. Signal provides the former, but not the latter.

It's tough. I think that usernames could become messy, but I also think it'd be amazing to anonymously tip a news reporter via Signal, but at the same time the latter would not be as safe as Tor etc.

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