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Signal Blog: Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames (signal.org)

submitted 7 months ago by UNIX84@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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

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[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (18 children)

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

Checkout Matrix/Element ~~or Session~~,
there you can actually enjoy privacy by signing-up without a phone number/email:

Edit: Due to Session's company residing in Australia,
which appareantly has bad privacy laws,
i don't feel comfortable with recommending it anymore

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (9 children)

You're referring to anonymity, not privacy.

Matrix/Element is slower than shit. I don't understand why anyone recommends this.

Session is also slow but that's not even a problem because I don't know anyone who's even heard of it, much less used it, and that's mostly because it doesn't have phone numbers.

At least some people I know are on Signal and I can easily discover them by phone #. Or at least I used to.

[–] debanqued@beehaw.org 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You’re referring to anonymity, not privacy.

Anonymity is part of privacy; not a dichotomy.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 points 7 months ago

No it's not.

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