> I’m surprised it doesn’t come up more in these discussions and people just “settle” for Signal Not needing a phone number is nice, but last I checked Wire do

> I’m surprised it doesn’t come up more in these discussions and people just “settle” for Signal Not needing a phone number is nice, but last I checked Wire does little when it comes to metadata, while Signal is more or less the state of the art in that regard. The phone number requirement itself is supposed to be eventually dropped in Signal (although I'll admit it's taking quite some time, and with the spam issues it might take some more).