I’d put it on my website, which contains my real name anyway, but Signal says that I should only share it with people I trust. Also, the link (signal.me/…) contains long base64 string with unknown content. What do you think?

  • Carighan Maconar
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    Yeah it automatically obfuscates. Mine is *******, for example.

  • Krafty Kactus
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    266 months ago

    You can share your signal username. Mine is donnietello.01

    Once you’ve shared it, if you’re getting a lot of spam you can just change it and it won’t change anything about your current conversations. It’s essentially just an invite link.

      • @[email protected]
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        Art of Reverse Scraping. Now the previous commenter will get at least a couple known good Signal handles to spam for a little.

          • sunzu
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            i agree… do all millennials know tho?

            I don’t even remember when that nomenclature drop off, i just remember getting online as kid and boy ohh boy… was it a time and place in history haha

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            It’s also a lot harder today.

            Earlier:

            a/s/l?

            16/f/NYC

            Now:

            a/s/l?

            Pardon me?

            a/g/l?

            400ppm/fluid/Insta

    • @LemmyKnowsBest
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      If you change it, do you have to tell all your trusted contacts what you changed it to?

      • Krafty Kactus
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        Nope. Its not used for continued conversations. Just for starting them. If you change your username, your contacts will not see any difference.