Comment by prepend
2 years ago
The reason I don’t use signal much is this link to a phone number.
Both because sometimes I don’t have a phone number. And I don’t want participants to know my phone number.
I don’t get why they have this requirement as it’s not like having a phone number means anything significant. For me, I think privacy includes my ability to not reveal my identity to the network.
> And I don’t want participants to know my phone number.
They're currently in the testing phase of allowing phone numbers not be known by your conversation partners: https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-username-testing-...
You still need to register with a phone number though. Until that's no longer a requirement, I'm personally not using Signal.
Interesting take. What is your current secure messenger of choice?