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I saw some threads here about Telegram and piracy stuff being banned. So, as an experimental alternative, I created a public Signal group for piracy.

Maybe it'll be useful?

Before joining

Signal supports usernames and hiding telephone numbers. Here's a blog entry on how to do so. You might want to:

  • set a username
  • change your profile name (these are two separate things!)
  • hide your phone number
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[–] liveinthisworld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago (20 children)

Arguable in it being "the best app for privacy". Can you link to a source which shows that phone numbers are not linked to accounts? (Why do they need them anyway?)

[–] uiiiq@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago (19 children)

They have published requests from the law enforcement and their responses to these requests. The only unencrypted data they have is the phone number, a date of sign up and a date of the last login. That is it, everything else is encrypted and they cannot access it whatsoever.

[–] liveinthisworld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (18 children)

The problem is, if you're in Europe, your phone number is associated with your identity

[–] uiiiq@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

So what? The law enforcement knows you have an account and knows the sign up date and last login. That doesn’t affect your privacy whatsoever. Besides, Europe isn’t a monolith. You can absolutely buy and use a SIM card without disclosing your name in some countries.

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