• nao@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    “You will still need a phone number for registration, but you can choose to share it with no one.”

    Except us, of course.

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      1 year ago

      Phone numbers keep spam down. It’s much much more difficult getting a bunch of phone numbers than it is to get emails so you mass create accounts

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      1 year ago

      I don’t see that as a problem. They basically only save the phone number, creation date and date of the last connection to the server.

      Signal was only able to provide two sets of data: the timestamp of when the account was created and the date of the last connection to the Signal server, as Signal does not store any other information about its users. source

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      1 year ago

      I don’t have a [usable] number. My phone is set up as a tablet.

      Ergo, fuck them and their boomer fixation on phone numbers.

      • Pablo@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        They do that for easier discovery of existing contacts. Say someone switches from WA to Signal and they want to contact someone. How’d they know their username? Their contact list would be empty and they would uninstall it. Signal would only be for nerds.