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Re:Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive by prepend on Friday November 17, 2023 @07:37AM (#38302665)
The reason I don’t use signal much is this link to a phone number.

Both because sometimes I don’t have a phone number. And I don’t want participants to know my phone number.

I don’t get why they have this requirement as it’s not like having a phone number means anything significant. For me, I think privacy includes my ability to not reveal my identity to the network.

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Re:Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive by Vinnl on Friday November 17, 2023 @07:50AM (#38302791)
> And I don’t want participants to know my phone number.

They're currently in the testing phase of allowing phone numbers not be known by your conversation partners: https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-username-testing-...

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Re:Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive by bitvoid on Friday November 17, 2023 @12:19PM (#38306635)
You still need to register with a phone number though. Until that's no longer a requirement, I'm personally not using Signal.
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Re:Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive by daddylongstroke on Friday November 17, 2023 @08:08PM (#38313450)
Interesting take. What is your current secure messenger of choice?
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