this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2025
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Sorry. I wish I hadn’t a few years ago. I will be looking to move to a non-Android, non-iOS phone soon so family will need another way to contact me. I can’t take a project serious that demands I use one of the corpo duopoly phones or even have a phone at all, but Signal, LINE, & a couple of other chat apps have this weird requirement.
XMPP and Threema don't require a phone number. And if you want you can run XMPP on your own server.
The difficulty will be convincing family to move again—not the technology options
I know, most people I know stick to whatssucks and faciesbook messenger.