cross-posted from: https://lemmy.perthchat.org/post/270408
Some local drug dealers and addicts use signal and I def don’t want them having my phone number.
No. Use matrix, where you can have several accounts.
I recently heard about Databag. It’s a decentralized and federated end to end encrypted messaging service. It could help with the issue. As long as you have or know someone who could run a node on some server space or even a rasberry pi
If you want temporary solution, use XMPP. You can use a username instead of a phone number. You can create private and public chats
Matrix and element?
Get a burner phone number?
I did that. I lost the burner number after it got rotated. Months later, I lost my Signal account when someone apparently used the number to setup an account on Signal.
You can lock your signal account with a password/code so that can’t happen
@thursday_j Session
Cross compatible with signal? Like how Lemmy and Mastodon federate?
nope signal is proprietary and cross compatibility would likely compromise their security
Wanting privacy’s understandable, but I don’t get why people have to add ‘drug addicts’.
People smoking a heroine spliff aren’t gonna do drugs at your house.
