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Signal Blog: Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames (signal.org)
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Finally, we can have usernames in Signal instead of giving our phone number to everybody.

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[-] debanqued@beehaw.org 6 points 4 months 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.

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