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[-] anzo@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

Ironically, Signal is about to move user IDs towards something unattached to telephone numbers and it had not been able to do so yet. Meanwhile, the slow moving XMPP has never made the wrong decision of using phone numbers because it was developed in an era when phones where a whole other thing than today's pocket computers. Instead, XMPP accounts are federated like Lemmy or email...

[-] mrh@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Have you heard something recent? I feel Signal has been saying that for years now.

[-] ninchuka@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

There's a beta you can try using a test branch app on their staging servers, you'll need to make a new account with your number again and there has been issues where its leaked your number

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