▲ 615 ▼ Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive (signal.org) submitted 2 years ago by u_tamtam@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world 170 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] tja@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) They are working on that! :) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] u_tamtam@programming.dev [S] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) No, I think they are merely working on user ids no longer mandating to be your phone number (so that it can be pseudonymous, e.g. tja@signal instead of +xx0123456@signal), I don't believe they hope to drop SMS verification at this point because of the spam issue getting worse otherwise permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] tja@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago Ah yes, good point! 👍 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] u_tamtam@programming.dev [S] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) No, I think they are merely working on user ids no longer mandating to be your phone number (so that it can be pseudonymous, e.g. tja@signal instead of +xx0123456@signal), I don't believe they hope to drop SMS verification at this point because of the spam issue getting worse otherwise permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] tja@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago Ah yes, good point! 👍 permalink fedilink source parent