@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Do you happen to use Signal btw? 🤔 If you do, it would be great if you could join the Yarn.social Signal Group (_at least until we have Group support and better apps for Salty.im 😅)

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci > this app basically took over my phone number

Is this an Android-specific thing? What the heck?

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci That sounds awful. I had to give Signal my phone number, but I assume that’s so people can find my account? It couldn’t reroute messages within my phone.

@mckinley@twtxt.net FWIW, spam on IRC is really, really prevalent, and IRC has limited systems to handle it. I know they’ll let you cloak your info with regards to other users seeing it, but trusting them with it is somewhat important to them managing the server.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Interestingly enough, Signal has announced plans to deprecate SMS/MMS support entirely. So even if I had a phone which could tamper with my text messages, Signal soon won’t anyways.

Since I’ve solely installed Signal to talk to the Yarn social Signal group, and that’s not a sensitive communication, it doesn’t bother me if it’s compromised very much.