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🌸 lumi-nhac catbite no_ai antifa 🌱 @lumi@snug.moe
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services stop asking for your phone number challenge 2025

.. can we just abolish phone numbers already
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Mari💙 (front) - Rin💖 (standby) @rinmari68k@sakurajima.social
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@lumi

"But but Signal Messenger is different!!"
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🌸 lumi-nhac catbite no_ai antifa 🌱 @lumi@snug.moe
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@rinmari68k heh, signal...

i wish they would just make it a decentralized, open standard, so i could actually recommend it

or at the very least drop the phone number requirement on registration, i can't use it if i have to give them a phone number. a messaging service has no business asking my phone number
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Mari💙 (front) - Rin💖 (standby) @rinmari68k@sakurajima.social
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@lumi

Plus, I know people who just don't have phones. One of my coworkers from my last job, for example, but he kept a close eye on his emails to compensate.
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🌸 lumi-nhac catbite no_ai antifa 🌱 @lumi@snug.moe
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@rinmari68k i would love to not have a smartphone but instead have a small pocket laptop :3
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Mari💙 (front) - Rin💖 (standby) @rinmari68k@sakurajima.social
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@lumi

That reminds me,
Signal desktop app requires the mobile app running at the same time, since it runs through that. It doesn't work standalone.
Do you guys not have phones?
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walnut 🌱 @walnut@thesoftestpaws.net
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@rinmari68k @lumi
It doesn't require to be running at the same time as your phone anymore; it gets its own keys and can do all the ratcheting stuff independently. But you still need to boot your phone every now and again to re-authorize the desktop client.
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