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Can I share my Signal username publicly? (self.asklemmy)
submitted 5 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] 42 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah it automatically obfuscates. Mine is *******, for example.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Really?

hunter12

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Hey, it doesn't look obfuscated to me?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

That's because it's your username. To you it shows normal, all I see is hunter12. See?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

God I miss bash.org

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is what I came for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

To me it does, maybe your phone has automatic encryption. Maybe send.your passwords so we can see if its decrypting automatically or not /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

All my usernames & passwords are hunter12 and I don't mind sharing them everywhere because my smartphone always automatically turns it into asterisks because someone on 4chan told me so.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

classic runescape

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 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 5 months ago (3 children)

All of Lemmy is now in your inbox

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 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 5 months ago

And now has trained more AI than anyone else.

Taps forehead.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

a/s/l?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Probably just two or three ultra-nerds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 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 5 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.