• aksdb@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    As long as Signal requires my phone number, it’s a hard NO for me. I don’t care how good they encrypt if the first thing they do is require one of my most personal identifiers.

    Threema has a very good model in that regard.

      • pflanzenregal@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        You’ll be able to connect with people by giving out your username instead of your phone number. You will however still be required to register using your phone number, if I’m not completely mistaken.

        So you can buy a burner phone (number) to receive the registration code and you’re good. Perhaps need to keep the number for migrating to new phone though.