I think I read somewhere, that Signal just recently allowed registration without phone number (“just” a spare device and a one-time payment, it’s in Android Beta, apparently), so that’ll work now.
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webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks agoDoes the signal bot need its own phone number?
kossa@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Flamekebab@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Yep. I keep an old phone for the bot to be a linked device.
God that sucks.
Why not use SimpleX or Wire or Matrix?
Flamekebab@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
What would be the advantage?
No phone number needed. Can run directly on a non-phone server.
Also more secure and trustworthy because it’s open source.