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Re:Signal Public Username Testing (Staging Environment) by Vinnl on Thursday November 09, 2023 @05:09AM (#38203121)
As I understand it, the phone number requirement won't be going away - it's just the requirement to share it with your contacts that they're abolishing.
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Re:Signal Public Username Testing (Staging Environment) by btreecat on Thursday November 09, 2023 @07:13AM (#38204011)
Seems like the right level of tradeoff to prevent abuse and enabling privacy, did you have a different expectation in terms of balance?
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Re:Signal Public Username Testing (Staging Environment) by Vinnl on Thursday November 09, 2023 @10:19AM (#38206091)
No, that's perfectly fine for me too, just wanted to be accurate and manage expectations :)

(In fact, I do still expect public phone numbers to be the "default", i.e. encouraged, experience, because of its viral properties. This is also fine by me, as I want Signal to be used by as many people as possible.)

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