One of the more limiting things about Signal is you have to give out your mobile number to everyone. Even if it is a burner, I still don't want to advertise to the world that it's mine.
Was happy to read today that Signal is now beta testing a new username feature.
https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-username-testing-staging-environment/56866
BrianKrebs /
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2023-11-08 20:05:05
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2023-11-08 20:05:05Event JSON
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