@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2026-09-24 15:12 UTC
Replies (3)
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@ohir@social.vivaldi.net 2026-09-24 15:37
@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org > it seems incredibly stupid for #Signal to require people to set up a payment method with G It seems very profitable, or at least it might ;) And still there is no standalone desktop for non-nerds, so any desktop message anyway will end at the G or A controlled device. > without using a phone number Since inception Signal allowed _any_ phone number to be used once. Not necessarily your number.
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@52fighters@rcsocial.net 2026-09-25 16:31
@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org If people want secure messaging without phone number sign-ups, #Briar is the better option.
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@huntingdon@mstdn.social 2026-09-26 23:20
@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org Signing up with Giggle in order to sign up with Signal without using a telephone number would seem to require give big tech more data than a telephone number. WTF would the vaunted privacy app Signal agree to that framework?