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@Sucuk @signal
I do think it make sense. I was in a similar situation. I was on #signal for a long time. But the whatsapp privacy thing made a lot of people to move. At that time, I got one of our friends group as well as my immediate family group moved on to signal. All of them including me are still on whatsapp, but these groups are only on signal. I also insist on communicating with folks in these groups (and for that matter anyone who is on signal & whatsapp) only on signal. Now at least all the messaging within my family happens over signal. And similar case, none of these folks are worried about privacy much. But if you can make it a habit to make people use it, I guess it sticks.

However, I have seen the number of contacts on signal has dropped considerably in the last couple of years. Probably you need another privacy policy hiccup with whatsapp or telegram before people flock back on to signal again!

@kde@lemmy.kde.social Anything that makes #kde more lightweight is always welcome. Hope this will make faster and nimbler and probably help reduce power consumption?

@Dienervent @andrewm @citytree @animist @BananaTrifleViolin
Signal was originally designed with phone number as the key identifier. This is to facilitate contact identification and building the social graph. The real issue is not that you need a phone number to register with signal. The problem is signal exposes the phone number to all people with whom you communicate, including in groups. That is a big privacy concern, especially if you a part of large groups where you don’t want everyone to see your phone number. This is a well known issue and the solution is to have disposable usernames along with ability to hide phone numbers from contacts.
Signal is currently working on these and some previews are available already. Hopefully that should be released soon.