Recently, the Prav app was released in F-droid. In this application, registration is by phone number.

What do you think about this?

@Slow@lemmy.today I think it works well for people who don’t know how to use email.

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Not gonna happen. I have a “burner” number too, but I still won’t give that to anyone if I can avoid it.

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@Slow i feel bad about it. I dont want to share my phone number 🤷‍♂️

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Most users care more about contact discovery than privacy so it makes sense for them to implement it and unlike Signal, it uses #xmpp so everyone has the freedom to use any other app that doesn’t require a phone number and you are still able communicate with everyone on Prav.

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I think that Prav can be recommended to friends who are used to registering for different services using a number. Such people are not accustomed to unnecessary steps during registration.

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No thanks, I’d rather set up my own XMPP or Matrix server.

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