Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
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Signal’s mission and sole focus is private communication. For years, Signal has kept your messages private, your profile information (like your name and profile photo) private, your contacts private, and your groups private – among much else. Now we’re taking that one step further, by making your...

Finally, we can have usernames in Signal instead of giving our phone number to everybody.

    • debanqued@beehaw.org
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      3 years ago

      Sign-up still requires a phone number… -.-"

      Thanks for the warning – that was my first question. It is my top reason (among many other reasons) for avoiding Signal.

      Checkout Matrix/Element or Session,

      All 3 of the sites you linked are Cloudflare sites (thus antithetical to privacy). Yes, I know you can use some of that tech without touching CF, but when they run CF websites it reveals hypocrisy & not understanding the goals of their audience.