I’m thinking of the things listed on the Privacy Guides real-time communication section
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Yeah, about that. https://www.signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/
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That’s my point. The phone number IS STILL required to create an account at Signal!
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You can always run a self-hosted version of Signal or a fork of it, then you can do whatever you want with it, including not using phone numbers.
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I’m not interested in running servers, in fact, my ISP doesn’t allow it anyway. I need something private that doesn’t ask for too much info off of me, and that’s why my solution was matrix, and not signal.
