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I remember a time when visiting a website that opens a javacript dialog box asking for your name so the message "hi " could be displayed was baulked at.

Why does signal want a phone number to register? Is there a better alternative?

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[–] BCsven 2 points 2 months ago

Session is what you want. But you have to directly shares each others public keys to connect

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Privacy is not necessarily anonymity. Signal uses a phone number to prevent spam and DDOS attacks on their network. Session doesn't do this and got wrecked by DDOS attacks to the point where most of the major groups are pretty much dead.

Use Signal to talk to people you know. That's what it's for. You don't use it for anonymous chats.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Privacy: they know who you are but they don't know what are you doing/when are you doing. Anonymity: they don't know who you are.

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