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This is one of the reasons I get annoyed at services that require a phone number for an account.

As such, I am never going to switch to Telegram or Signal unless you let me have an account that's not tied to a number. I've lost shit in the past because of this, a phone number is only a temporary identifier.



Signal supports usernames now.


It is still tied to your phone number though.


Went to Signal to sign up and it is requesting a phone number. How do I give it a username instead?




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