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Signal introduces usernames and phone number privacy. (signal.org)

submitted 7 months ago by 7eter@feddit.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Neon@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe the account will have finite time before it’s auto-deleted if you don’t input a number some time later to ensure that this option isn’t abused to all hell by bots and malicious actors alike

we're already banning bots, thus effectively making them time-limited. Yet we still have bots and spam on there. This sadly won't work.

[–] Stewbs@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

That sucks and is quite unfortunate, would've been cool to have another option other than signing up with your phone number but I suppose it's alright