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Do you prefer Threema, Signal or Matrix? Why?
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It's an issue.
You can't create an account on desktop. You can't create multiple accounts. You can't create an account at all if you don't have a phone number. You can't create an account if your phone number's previous owner created an account. Signal can be subpoenaed for your phone number.
Is it possible to use a number different to the one on the device you use? Seems like a simple workaround to use a throwaway SIM to set up, and then use it with that number moving forwards.
That sounds like an awful lot of work to workaround a problem that shouldn't have existed in the first place.
Yes: mine uses a Google Voice number.