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Can I share my Signal username publicly?

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I’d put it on my website, which contains my real name anyway, but Signal says that I should only share it with people I trust. Also, the link (signal.me/…) contains long base64 string with unknown content. What do you think?

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Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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Yeah it automatically obfuscates. Mine is *******, for example.

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TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub
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Really?

hunter12

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TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub
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Hey, it doesn’t look obfuscated to me?

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Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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That’s because it’s your username. To you it shows normal, all I see is hunter12. See?

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BurningTurtle@feddit.org
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classic runescape

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