In the current Staging implementation, you pick a username (which you can change), and the app picks a two-digit suffix to your username.
Comment on 'Signal tests usernames to avoid using phone numbers.' Great move?
fubo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So if I claim fubo as a username on Signal, that means what? Nobody else can use that username? If so, it’s another global namespace, same as Twitter; ten or twenty years in the future, someone’s gonna want to be reclaiming disused usernames.
MondayToFriday@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
fubo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oh, so can I keep trying until I get to be
fubo69? Nice.MondayToFriday@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Sure, unless the username+suffix is already taken.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What if I want to be fubo to some people, and MissCatPictures to other people?
Jami allows that, and I think Cwtch does as well. SimpleX doesn’t have username at all.
starlord@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Use SimpleX
pret2xyz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de 7 months ago
WireMin is a massive scam, please don’t use it. It’s been advertised on several Lemmy communities with unsolicited posts and comments, and it promises things it can’t do, like offer any type of privacy.
nix@midwest.social 7 months ago
When you say “safer” can you elaborate on in what sense you mean?
WallEx@feddit.de 7 months ago
The question is about the functionality of signal
starlord@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I meant only to address what I specifically quoted. The feature of using multiple identities, separately for each contact, is baked right into SimpleX and works amazingly well.
WallEx@feddit.de 7 months ago
Sounds neat, I’ll look into it