You can change your number
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You can change your number
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#2> We built Change Number using the foundation of more exciting features to come.
Surely this is referring to the ability to use a non-phone number ID, which they've hinted at before [1]. Looking forward to that, only because I know many others are!
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/kt91qk/comment/...
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#3That's cool. Can I not use a number? Would it be so hard to add a username field?
That the default is phone-number based for discovery is a savvy and logical move for adoption. So add it as an optional feature.
The conclusion that I immediately arrive to is that this software must be a honeypot of some sort because it makes no sense. Literally zero.
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#4How about no phone number at all?
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#5How about no phone number at all?
You can use wire instead
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#6Can people please choose an appropriate title when posting. "You can change your number" makes sense in the context of signal.org but makes little sense on the front page of HN. The RSS feed doesn't even include the domain for context.
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#7How about no phone number at all?
You can use wire instead
Exactly. Why on earth is it so hard or difficult for Signal to do just that?
Regardless, I don't know why they are pushing in a somewhat unregulated, volatile cryptocurrency that will be used by extremists, terrorists and the like who in no doubt will not only use it to fund their activities and will be sitting in their group chats but now they can change their phone numbers to hide even further?
The road to hell is been paved with good intentions. Hasn't it? But at least Wire does not still require a phone number, nor does it have silly cryptocurrencies in their product for pump and dump purposes.
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#8How can I use this without a phone or phone number at all? If I am concerned about privacy, why would I give them that access and information when it's not necessary for the service? Surely they are only trying to gather information on their users. Whether it's being sold, breached, or used for ad targeting, I am not interested. It comes across as a scam.
I cannot take seriously any claims made by the company or its employees / owners. None of it can be used as evidence of their goodwill or what they do with my data. They have an interest in deceiving me.
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#9> We built Change Number using the foundation of more exciting features to come. Surely this is referring to the ability to use a non-phone number ID, which they've hinted at before [1]. Looking forward to that, only because I know many others are! [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/kt91qk/comment/...
Oh, I'm surprised, after a decade stating that phone numbers were great for ID.
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#10Not sure why you need a phone number? besides government and/or ad tracking.
This is why I use Matrix/Element