Yes, you can use Signal without sharing your personal phone number. Here’s how I did it.

Yes, you can use Signal without sharing your personal phone number. Here’s how I did it.

  • Manmoth@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Why do people feel the need to split hairs with these terms?

    He’s not splitting hairs. It’s just a different value proposition. I don’t like the phone number requirement either but it makes sense to your average normie who realizes SMS is exposed plaintext. Something like an anonymous seed phrase as the key to your account would confuse most people. Email would be an improvement but it’s at best pseudonymous.