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Comment by latexr

2 years ago

> A username on Signal (unlike a profile name) must be unique and must have two or more numbers at the end of it; a choice intended to help keep usernames egalitarian and minimize spoofing.

Interesting choice. I’m guessing most people might just use the last two digits from their birth year, to make it easy to remember.

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