• Ulrich@feddit.org
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    5 hours ago

    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?

        • dracs@programming.dev
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          4 minutes ago

          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.