As Signal get your phone number. Can we considerate this application as private ? What’s your thoughts about it ? I’m also using SimpleX, ElementX, Threema, but not much people using it…

Cheers

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    They have your phone number but that’s really all they have.

    Some people say Bozos can read your metadata because it’s hosted on AWS servers but I don’t believe that.

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        No one that has told me this has ever been able to offer up any sort of explanation, but please do feel free to give it ago.

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          Multiple-accounts and pseudonyms. It’s like the 101 of interacting on the Internet. With a phone number requirement that’s automatically made impossible.

          Also SIM-cards/phone numbers are required by law to be attached to your real world identity in many countries.

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            Multiple-accounts and pseudonyms

            What about them?

            Also SIM-cards/phone numbers are required by law to be attached to your real world identity in many countries.

            Why is that a problem?

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              Why is that a problem?

              Why are you posting as artyom@piefed.social and not <real name>@<home address>?

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                …because this is not a private message? And because my home address is not a piefed server. Such a weird question…