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Can I share my Signal username publicly? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 4 months ago by starman to c/[email protected]

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I'd put it on my website, which contains my real name anyway, but Signal says that I should only share it with people I trust. Also, the link (signal.me/...) contains long base64 string with unknown content. What do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You can share your signal username. Mine is donnietello.01

Once you've shared it, if you're getting a lot of spam you can just change it and it won't change anything about your current conversations. It's essentially just an invite link.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (3 children)

All of Lemmy is now in your inbox

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Art of Reverse Scraping. Now the previous commenter will get at least a couple known good Signal handles to spam for a little.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

And now has trained more AI than anyone else.

Taps forehead.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

a/s/l?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Probably just two or three ultra-nerds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you change it, do you have to tell all your trusted contacts what you changed it to?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Nope. Its not used for continued conversations. Just for starting them. If you change your username, your contacts will not see any difference.