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Stop Treating Phone Numbers As A Digital ID
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this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2025
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No, but you can do the same for a wide variety of chat apps.
LOL then why is my inbox constantly full of spam?
Platforms like SimpleX solve spam by requiring participants to have an invitation to message you. You can either send them a 1-time invitation or you can use a semi-permanent one that can be posted publicly and rolled as necessary without losing contact with anyone you've already connected with, so by the time it's mined somehow and sold to some company, it's already changed.
LOL what? No they're not. How does an email protect your privacy over just a username?
They said per-account email addresses, presumably meaning that when giving out an email address, you would use a different one for each service. That way, they couldn't be used to link you across services, and you could easily delete one (and know who to blame) if it was abused.
Yes, I understand how email aliasing works. Again, how is that more private than a username?
I don't see a claim of it being more private than a username. Perhaps the person you're arguing with views them as equally private, or is thinking of services that require some form of contact info. I can't speak for them.
It's right here:
But you just did.