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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (40 children)

Signal still centrally collects metadata and requires a phone number to participate.

If you're serious about privacy, ESPECIALLY if you're part of a group looking to organize in a clandestine fashion, you should look into the vastly superior SimpleX Chat.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 week ago (6 children)

They dropped the phone number requirement a while ago

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

you mean, you don't need one for registration?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I've been corrected on that.

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