Open post Manfred Mayer @manfredmayer@muenchen.social · 31mo ago Replying to @castrillo@mastodon.online @signalapp@mastodon.world but we still need to provide the number phone in order to open a new account @castrillo@mastodon.online @signalapp@mastodon.world This reduces spam. ;-)
Open post Manfred Mayer @manfredmayer@muenchen.social · 31mo ago Replying to @signalapp@mastodon.world <p>Phone number privacy and usernames are now rolling out to everyone using Signal version 7.0! Update your app to take advantage of these new features 🎇</p><p><a href="https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">signal.org/blog/phone-number-p</span><span class="invisible">rivacy-usernames/</span></a></p> @signalapp@mastodon.world Great job! Well done!
Open post Manfred Mayer @manfredmayer@muenchen.social · 31mo ago Replying to @j_r@social.jugendhacker.de @manfredmayer@muenchen.social @castrillo@mastodon.online @signalapp@mastodon.world I would certainly doubt this, as phone numbers (especially in some countries) are cheap quite cheap. So if a spammer really wants to, it's not much of an additional burden @j_r@social.jugendhacker.de @castrillo@mastodon.online @signalapp@mastodon.world Yes, that's clear. Therefore I wrote "reduce" and not "prevent"