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Signal team talks about usernames in 2024
(youtu.be)
is there a specific time code?
found it: 47m 30s
I shared the link with the proper timestamp. It didn't work there?
It does work just fine :)
In the video, it sounds like the account will still be associated with a phone number, but users will be able to hide the number on Signal itself. Essentially creating a second on-platform identifier.
This would solve the expected spam problem that would occur if the phone number requirement were removed, and might protect against stalkers et al, but intuitively I'd say you could probably require Signal to reveal the phone number associated with a username. So it's probably not a step towards anonymity.
... anyway: super exciting and very welcome. Hopefully they will finally ship it. .... after hinting at it for several years.
Yes, and it follows what was shown in a YouTube video of a beta build earlier in spring. I think it looks very promising. Link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g81mBMGw6fo
Good video I didn't know. Thank you!
Ugh, they were talking about this in summer 2022, at least. I think Valve will ship Portal 3 before we see Signal ship username support.
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