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[-] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago

If it's 1 euro a month, I'll do it

[-] rozlav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 days ago

Anyone knows about creating easily a signal account without smartphone ? Telegram does that and I have tremondous people that would use that instead of whatsapp/telegram and that don't understand matrix or even Mattermost 😭

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 3 points 5 days ago

Telegram does that? how? you need a phone number, so essentially a smartphone too. or is it common in your community to use feature phones, so that the problem is no registration on PC?

[-] rozlav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 5 days ago

No Telegram can do registration with just a simple text message + pc, no need of smartphones just simple dumb phone

[-] Rose@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

Assuming you have a computer to get on here, you could use an Android emulator like BlueStacks.

[-] rozlav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago

But you need a simcard with this emulator to connect to signal, here I'm talking about getting a text message and then still have a signal account, or even better : only having an account but wirh email or norhing. I think it's not possible to have signal work the way you describe.

[-] Zak@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

A phone number that can receive SMS is required, but it doesn't have to be associated with the device that's running Signal last I checked.

[-] rozlav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago

So you can have signal desktop on pc and activate it from there with a phone that only receives SMS ? I have a few people to tell so they can try then because this is a huge step for non-smartphone users. If anyone have a source on this btw I would be happy to read it !

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[-] mikarv@someone.elses.computer 1 points 5 days ago

@rozlav don’t need a smartphone, but do need access to a telephone number. it’s an important anti spam measure. you never have to use or display it: can operate entirely with signal usernames instead

[-] sonalder@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

Imagine having to pay with it with MobileCoin's shitcoin ^^

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