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Reply to comment by twovests in Tech Support: If I have my name on my signal account, does it show it to everyone I add on there? by flabberghaster

I think it shows your name and profile picture, but not your phone number.

Correct; it’s actually best to think of the name field as “displayname”. If that’s not what you want you can change it.

Interestingly, it also doesn’t reveal your username, and allows you to change usernames without losing already existing chats. So a trick I’ve used is to change my username to something random, give it to someone in order to establish a conversation then change my username back. Now I have a conversation where neither of us can see the phone # or username of the other.

I think if they have your phone number in their contacts, Signal will add that to the Signal contact, and so someone can find your phone number by adding every phone number to their contacts

Yes, but I handle this by not allowing signal to access my contacts. It’s worth checking out your various ai and assistant settings on your phone as well but that’s a bit of another topic.

Edit: I just realized in the final paragraph the concern was other people finding out you were on signal by them giving signal access to their contact book. As I understand it, if you were trying to hide that you have a signal account from people who would have your phone number this would be genuine concern. Personally I don’t use my primary phone number for signal which makes this a non-issue. If you don’t want your normal contacts knowing you use signal then you should get a second number and register signal to it instead.

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twovests wrote

Reply to Tech Support: If I have my name on my signal account, does it show it to everyone I add on there? by flabberghaster

I think it shows your name and profile picture, but not your phone number. Importantly, it requires you add someone, or willingly join a group.

I think if they have your phone number in their contacts, Signal will add that to the Signal contact, and so someone can find your phone number by adding every phone number to their contacts. But I'm not certain about that.

More: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007459591-Signal-Profiles-and-Message-Requests

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twovests wrote

Reply to comment by rain in Exciting developments by nomorepie

Hands too small to hold a phone comfortably

Hands too big to use a pop socket

Hands just right for when I accidentally broke the pop socket, turning the thing into a small knob that makes my phone easier to hold

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twovests wrote

Reply to light is kind of crazy by neku

The reprieve of my life is the fact that you can make this post by employing an arcane series of hand gestures to communicate using magical devices created through the collective efforts of billions of efforts of human activity

Good post, I appreciated it just as you appreciated your light bulbs

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to I want to indulge in clowning. There is nothing wrong with the catharsis of laughing. Clown in this thread with me. by twovests

It's all so fucking absurd!

Please imagine a version of yourself from 2015. You're chatting with them.

Were they on Reddit? What did they think of Bitcoin? What about the shiba inu memes? "Wow, such post"? Were they aware of Elon Musk? Did they think he was the cool space billionaire? Did they think Trump's presidential run was just so funny?

Now please imagine telling them "Under Elon Musk plays a Himmler to President Trump's Hitler as he leads a hostile takeover of the entire United States federal government under the new DOGE agency."

Can someone please clown with me? This is so absurd. This is all so absurd. I fantasize about finding out this is all a wild fever dream.

President Trump was a clown. Elon Musk was a stupid Redditor idol. Doge was a tired meme about a cute dog. Hillary Clinton was going to be President.

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