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Privacy-focused messaging app Signal has been flying high in the Dutch app stores this past month, sitting in pole-position for much of it.
  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    6 hours ago

    Exactly. And requiring a phone number enables convenience features like:

    • account recovery
    • find contacts
    • be found by other people

    Once you have an account, you can disable the phone number and use Hawks usernames instead (can be changed at will) of disable discovery entirely.

    It’s a pretty reasonable limitation IMO.