On: Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive

[prepend]

The reason I don’t use signal much is this link to a phone number.

Both because sometimes I don’t have a phone number. And I don’t want participants to know my phone number.

I don’t get why they have this requirement as it’s not like having a phone number means anything significant. For me, I think privacy includes my ability to not reveal my identity to the network.

[Vinnl → prepend]

> And I don’t want participants to know my phone number.

They're currently in the testing phase of allowing phone numbers not be known by your conversation partners: https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-username-testing-...

[bitvoid → Vinnl]

You still need to register with a phone number though. Until that's no longer a requirement, I'm personally not using Signal.

[daddylongstroke → bitvoid]

Interesting take. What is your current secure messenger of choice?