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    179 months ago

    Seems the second group is a vocal minority. This feature helps the first group, but doesn’t help the second group.

    According to Signal, the first group is the larger group and this helps the most users of Signal.

    Could it be better? Sure. This is still a good step in terms of privacy, even though it doesn’t really improve anonymity.

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      69 months ago

      Personally, I care about the phone number requirement not because I don’t want to reveal it to Signal servers, but because it limits access to Signal for people in countries that block their SMS service - registration messages just don’t arrive

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        29 months ago

        It’s specific to signal? Like they want to block people registering or what’s up with that SMS block?

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          39 months ago

          Not specific to Signal. I believe he was referring to places where Twilio doesn’t serve, for example because of sanctions.