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[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (26 children)

If you join a large WhatsApp group, anyone in that group will have everyone else's phone number, and they can use that to learn far more about everyone's identities.

Does it not give away your identity when you join a Signal group?

[โ€“] merde 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

settings > privacy > phone number > who can see my number > nobody

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Not worried about my phone number so much as my legal name...

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No requirement to have your legal name in Signal. Though, I do wish it was possible to set a different name for group chats though. Happy to use my real name with friends and family, but would prefer an alias for group chats.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Happy to use my real name with friends and family, but would prefer an alias for group chats.

Exactly.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Maybe I'm just weird, but basically nothing I do in an online capacity traces back to my IRL identity. (I do maintain a linked in for professional purposes.)

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