Things are heating up. Millions of people are taking to the streets against Trump's rising authoritarianism. Communities around the US are organizing to defend against ICE raids, to protest Israeli genocide, for mutual aid, and for other forms of fighting fascism. Signal can help people safely organize in all of
Not worried about my phone number, I’m more worried about my profile.
Your profile, like everything else on Signal, is also end-to-end encrypted. Your name and profile picture do get shared with whoever you chat with, groups or individuals. If you don’t want your name and profile picture shared with randos, either don’t set them or don’t chat with randos.
That’s fine if one of those ends isn’t a public activism group.
I use Signal to talk to people I actually know, both personally and professionally. I don’t want to message them from some sort of unidentifiable alias. And if I did they would know my alias and could disclose it to law enforcement.
You mean randos like you might find in a public activism group chat? Yes, that was my point, thank you.