Can I share my Signal username publicly? (programming.dev)

submitted 3 days ago by starman@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'd put it on my website, which contains my real name anyway, but Signal says that I should only share it with people I trust. Also, the link (signal.me/...) contains long base64 string with unknown content. What do you think?

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[-] 667@lemmy.radio 16 points 2 days ago

Art of Reverse Scraping. Now the previous commenter will get at least a couple known good Signal handles to spam for a little.

[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 5 points 2 days ago

And now has trained more AI than anyone else.

Taps forehead.

this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2024

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