No More Phone Number Swaps: Signal Messaging App Now Testing Usernames

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• Zima@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I hope they look into how they are treating desktop clients as secondary devices with extra hassle. I'll try it if they address that.

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  • Player2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Really? The only problem I’ve had on desktop is the very frequent updates

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    • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My main problem is that they wouldn’t allow registration without having a smartphone first. At first I used signal-cli, which was inconvenient because there was no message history even. Now I use it in Waydroid, but why should one bother like that? And last time I tried it, the only way to bind a different device was by scanning a QR, which is not doable by Waydroid and iirc kinda hard in a VM.

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• netchami@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Another reason to switch to Signal if you don’t already use it.

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• abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s great news - but more importantly… is there a way to backup my messages yet?

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  • tiny_electron@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can backup your messages on Android at least

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    • abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah that’s Android only. If you drop your iPhone in a toilet, or if you need to factory reset it, everything in signal is gone. Even if you backup your device with the built in system back, signal has chosen to deliberately it’s own internal database as being omitted from backups.

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    • cybersandwich@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How?

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