Asklemmy

43494 readers

1380 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

Sync specific contacts with signal? (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by flashgnash@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

3 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Work have started trying out signal for messaging, but I'd rather not have all my personal contacts and conversations on a machine I don't own

Is there any way I could white/black list certain contacts from one device, or is the only way to manage two separate accounts? (If so, is there an easy/built in way to do that on windows/nixos)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] abominable_panda@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Assuming you have a separate number for work:

Download shelter or island and create a work profile on your android device

Use your normal profile (and one instance of signal with personal number) for personal stuff

Use the work profile (second signal instance, work number) and separate contacts list for work

Link the work number/ signal to pc

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

I'm using a Samsung phone which comes with a work profile built in, but I don't have a work phone number (I think signal will allow email addresses instead soon though)

I use my laptop for both work and personal, I am under the impression it's going to be more work to achieve the same effect on nixos