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Signal has got Usernames now. You can block number discovery. You can't resolve username to number. Your main account ID internally is not your number anymor
by OSI-Auflauf 2y ago
Signal has got Usernames now.
You can block number discovery.
You can't resolve username to number.
Your main account ID internally is not your number anymore.
If 2 users add you using 2 different links or usernames.
Its now harder to confirm its the same account.
- alexpc201 2y agoTell me, can you have a Signal account WITHOUT giving them your phone number?
- Razengan 2y agoCan you sign up for Telegram without a phone number?
- kojoru 2y agoYes: https://telegram.org/blog/ultimate-privacy-topics-2-0 https://telegram.org/blog/ultimate-privacy-topics-2-0
- luuurker 2y agoWithout "SIM card" and "without a number" are different things. Apparently you still need a number, a "blockchain-powered" number: "[...] You can have a Telegram account without a SIM card and log in using blockchain-powered anonymous numbers available on the Fragment platform."
- OSI-Auflauf 2y agoIrs super complicated to use. And you need an existing Telegram account to actually handle that cryptocurrency to buy these pseudo-numbers outside of the telephone namespace. Guess what you need to register those. An actual working phone number.
- NicuCalcea 2y agoThat's just buying a fake phone number, I don't see what would prevent you from using it with Signal the same way.
- nottorp 2y agoNot everyone is commenting on signal vs telegram here, it may just be an opinion that the phone number requirement is dubious from both entitites.
- Zedseayou 2y agoI'm not sure what the behaviour is now but certainly the default a while back was that anytime someone in your contacts joined Signal you would get a message. Imo this was a crazy behaviour that immediately told you something about certain people in your contacts in a very visible way (that they were on Signal). I couldn't tell from the settings whether this was now off by default.
- amenhotep 2y agoTelegram has done and may still (I don't know personally) do the exact same thing. Stated noncombatively and without assumption about what argument you may or may not be making, but seems relevant to mention in this context. Astonishingly bad behaviour no matter which app!
- OSI-Auflauf 2y agoBoth do that.
- navigate8310 2y agoYou still need a phone number to sign up