4 mo. ago • 97%

Can I share my Signal username publicly?

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

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- Really?
  
  hunter12
  
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  Hey, it doesn't look obfuscated to me?
  
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  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.
  
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- classic runescape
  
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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.

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- All of Lemmy is now in your inbox
  
  37
  
  Art of Reverse Scraping. Now the previous commenter will get at least a couple known good Signal handles to spam for a little.
  
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  a/s/l?
  
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  Probably just two or three ultra-nerds.
  
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- If you change it, do you have to tell all your trusted contacts what you changed it to?
  
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  Nope. Its not used for continued conversations. Just for starting them. If you change your username, your contacts will not see any difference.
  
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