• Eugenia@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    I’m using Matrix/element. I rather not give my phone number, you see, which is must-have for Signal. I have installed the app in my family’s phones, and they were accepting, so all is well. I don’t need to communicate through private messaging with anybody else, so who cares if others don’t use matrix?

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        7 months ago

        That’s my point. The phone number IS STILL required to create an account at Signal!

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          7 months ago

          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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            7 months ago

            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.

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              7 months ago

              You can. But you’re not going to. Signal isn’t federated. Not only do you need to self host your own server, you need to build your own clients, and then have everybody you want to talk to using your specific clients talking to your specific server.

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      7 months ago

      I think Signal rolled out a username system that should let users communicate without having to share phone numbers