@middleclasstool
My takeaway from this: There is a white house app???

@QasimRashid
None of mine on that list!

Wisconsin, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Hawaii, Arizona, Michigan, Rhode Island, Nevada, California, Virginia, come get ya boys!

@kkarhan
Email is, in practice, a privacy shit show equal to or greater than phone numbers. Either you self-host, which means you have an isp and a DNS provider at minimum who can reveal your identity on their whims, even if you lie on a whois record. Or you use one of the mega free providers with all their conflicts of interest and data mining. Or you use a paid provider which opens up all the payment chain to trace back to you on top of everything else

To get a phone number I can walk to the corner convenience store and, with cash payment and no ID, purchase a prepaid SIM card. I can pay cash to refill it every month.

@kkarhan
This has always struck me as the strangest complaint about Signal.

You don't need to distribute your phone number to actually communicate with other signal users.

Presumably you want some form of 2fa, because losing your account would be bad.

And you don't want to be tied to some cloud based email provider.

And it's literally a phone app so every single user has the dependency.

@occult
For some reason "UNIX is a trademark of Bell Laboratories. Ethernet is a trademark of Xerox Corporation" hits harder for me.