• Numberone@startrek.website
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    6 months ago

    Signal no longer requires a phone number. You can now create an account. Not sure if that helps your outlook on it, but yeah. It was a fairly recent update that this was rolled out.

    Edit: being told we still do need numbers to register. I haven’t gotten a new phone since well before the change was made, so I haven’t actually created an account and gone through the process. It looks like I misinterpreted what was going on when I read the changelog.

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      6 months ago

      That’s not true. A phone number is still required to register, you can just set it not to be public.

      Source: I just tried to register and it asked for my phone number.

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      Last I have seen, it still requires a number to register - it just doesn’t have to be public.

      What gets me the most is the requirement of a smartphone to register. No way I am trusting my non-public chats to a phone, so that means either Waydroid/VM (which creates issues with copypasting) or signal-cli (which is fairly inconvenient).