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Downsides of Signal alternatives compared to Signal? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by AprilF00lz@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I'm thinking of the things listed on the Privacy Guides real-time communication section

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication/

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[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, about that. https://www.signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

[–] eugenia@lemmy.ml 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That's my point. The phone number IS STILL required to create an account at Signal!

[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

I see.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You can always run a self-hosted version of Signal or a fork of it, then you can do whatever you want with it, including not using phone numbers.

[–] eugenia@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm not interested in running servers, in fact, my ISP doesn't allow it anyway. I need something private that doesn't ask for too much info off of me, and that's why my solution was matrix, and not signal.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

most people don't run servers from their house, but something like a cheap VPS or similar.

[–] airikr@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wait, what?! You can self-host Signal? Please send me a guide!

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You can. But you're not going to. Signal isn't federated. Not only do you need to self host your own server, you need to build your own clients, and then have everybody you want to talk to using your specific clients talking to your specific server.

[–] airikr@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Ah, yeah, of course :/ Will stick to my own XMPP server then.