About time! Hopefully they will find ways to reduce spam though.
Never had a spam message
I imagine unrestricted usernames would make spam easier than with phone numbers. I’m just hoping they have a way to control this.
they’re going with numbers along with usernames, kinda like discord to reduce spam. I hope they work.
…so you can avoid sharing your phone number with your contacts.
they are not planning to let you use Signal without having a phone number and sharing it with their (Amazon’s) servers.
More spam messages then, ok…
While Signal did justify the need for numbers by cutting spam prevention I don’t get it…
Spammers use fake phone numbers all the time on the regular phone service so why not on Signal? A few steps too many for them to bother registering?
A few possible answers:
- Signal is not big enough for spammers to spend resources on
- People who bothered to use Signal are likely to be more privacy minded and therefore less likely to fall for scam
- Signal just isn’t as private as its marketing wants you to think it is
A tip (but you do you, of course), use something federated (XMPP!): the time for trusting a central organization to do no harm is over if you have kept tabs of anything internet over the last 40 years or so…
You still need phone number verification to create an account, that hasn’t changed
So on the privacy front nothing has either. Good to know.
How come the only people I ever meet that use these weird messaging apps are drug dealers and immigrants? 99% of people I meet use Snapchat or Facebook Messenger to talk to people if not SMS, only time I hear about Whatsapp IRL it’s the sketchiest people.
While I’m on the subject, is the person who designs the Snapchat user interface from this planet? Do they have severe mental deficiencies? It’s really the worst UI of any app or program I’ve ever experienced.
Let me guess American? In Europe basically everyone uses Whatsapp, lots of people use Telegram some use signal. I use all of them.
Yep, you are correct.
Yeah when I got my first smartphone and whatsapp wasn’t around yet I had to pay like 10 or 15 cents per sms. So when WhatsApp became an option everybody and their mother jumped ship and joined. For a while sending an sms and getting back I’m on WhatsApp was a thing.
Nowadays I think sms is basically part of your plan an for most plans unlimited. But they milked it way too hard back in the day. So most people just don’t use it at all.
Wild but now things make a lot more sense, I’ve had unlimited texts for the majority of the time I’ve had a cellphone.
