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Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago

Signal may soon be getting usernames

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Signal may soon be getting usernames

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Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago

Louis Grasset (@louisgrasset)

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‼️ Sounds like the @signalapp team is nearly ready to ship #usernames to the Signal messaging app 👀

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I mean, username vs phone number kinda doesn’t matter anymore since it doesn’t even do SMS anymore. This is probably the most popular change they could do and which has the least consequences on bloat.

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