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Signal Blog: Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames (signal.org)

submitted 9 months ago by UNIX84@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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Finally, we can have usernames in Signal instead of giving our phone number to everybody.

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[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (10 children)

Too little too late, I'm afraid.

I would love to use Signal more, but I have it for only 1 friend. No one else I know uses it. And the fact that they don't support SMS is I imagine a large contributing factor.

(Yes, I know SMS is inherently insecure & unprivate, but having that support is a good way to get users' foots in the door, and also what good is a totally secure platform if no one uses it?)

[–] snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I still luckily have a nice group of friends using Signal but I agree that dropping SMS support was a mistake. There was a good issue explaining why dropping SMS support was bad on their GitHub: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/12560

[–] explodicle@local106.com 2 points 8 months ago

In hindsight it's sad how very right he was. Now when I think "I want to send Alice a message", I just go to the app I know will work, instead of trying to remember if Alice still uses Signal too.

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

I genuinely appreciate that there are some people who have the benefit of a group of contacts who are willing to use it. I'm happy for you.

Also, that's an interesting thread. Thanks for sharing it. :)

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