@heavenly_general Well done, Signal. 🎉
It's definitely better than others. But it still needs a phone number. I'd be so happy if I could use it without giving away my personal phone number, or at least share a url or id instead of my number for others to chat with me.
@adnan360
I believe they're currently working on bringing support for usernames (or similar anonymous identifier) rather than phone numbers.
@heavenly_general@social.linux.pizza
@syntax That's great. Even if that's just for adding the contact or send a message, that's enough. I can then add it on a contact page of my website without sharing my number.
Another possibility is aliases. What if we can create aliases for contacting us, without revealing our real username? In case someone decides to spam to our username we can just disable that alias.That'd save us from lots of potential problems.