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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.

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starlord@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

What if I want to be fubo to some people, and MissCatPictures to other people?

Use SimpleX

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- pret2xyz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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  - deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
    
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  - nix@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    When you say “safer” can you elaborate on in what sense you mean?
    
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- WallEx@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The question is about the functionality of signal
  
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  - starlord@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
    
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    WallEx@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Sounds neat, I’ll look into it
    
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MondayToFriday@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
In the current Staging implementation, you pick a username (which you can change), and the app picks a two-digit suffix to your username.

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- fubo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Oh, so can I keep trying until I get to be fubo69? Nice.
  
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  - MondayToFriday@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Sure, unless the username+suffix is already taken.
    
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AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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