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Signal is working on registration without a phone number. But what form will it take? (aboutsignal.com)
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[–] BurgerBaron@quokk.au 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

At this rate Canada would probably ban anything they can't get records from eventually if it got popular enough. I hate this timeline.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And Canada is supposed to be “the good guys”.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago

no good guys out there as state actors, some are the "lesser evil" and we all have to live somewhere

[–] vanillama@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

They have great PR, but other than that no, unfortunately