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MagneticFusion@lemm.ee to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Meeting new roommates for college and I suggested Signal and this was someone's response. I hate Gen Z.

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Meeting new roommates for college and I suggested Signal and this was someone's response. I hate Gen Z.

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MagneticFusion@lemm.ee to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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  • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    have to share your phone number

    Lol, lmao even

    What great security

    Same shit with Telegram and how you literally can’t use it without a phone. You have to use your phone to log in on desktop, even. Just lollll

    • NormalC [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Security and avoidance of anti-features != anonymity. If you wanted that you would have to use something like GNU Jami which has account archives and is peer to peer.

      I’m just grateful that the phone number requirement means less of a hassle for others.

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        you’re just saying a bunch of words at me that mean literally nothing if you think it being tied to your phone + phone number = good

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          Good for what?

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            Having an app, the entire point of which is encrypted communication, tied to your fucking phone number is fucking stupid shrug-outta-hecks

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              Is there another app you’d suggest instead? Signal seems to work well for OP’s use case.

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      You don’t have to share your phone number with people to use telegram with them though.

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