Thanks for the answer. I guess I’ll have to patiently wait and use Gnome in the meantime.

It’s invite only now?

I wonder if it’s only happening on KDE? Either way, I’m sure it needs to be corrected.

That sucks and they need to fix it. Still out hasn’t happened here yet. Are you on Gnome desktop environment?

I never have to launch twice on flatpak.

And I only keep conversations for 2 to 4 weeks so starting over doesn’t bother me. Sorry if that doesn’t work for you too.

I love Signal and use it with my family which is the majority of my messaging. But I was surprised to find out the rest of my family on iPhone are missing features I have on Android. This doesn’t help bring the iPhone users.

I don’t disagree with you either. But I think that when people give their phone number to a business they are often unaware of all of the nefarious ways it will be used, whether by ignorance or deception.

My point is just that replaceable usernames are perfect for random people you meet IRL or on the Internet because it’s minimal trouble to disconnect permanently when the time comes.

I have given names to people on the Internet and changed names after our conversation was finished. I think that is much better than giving someone a phone number and much easier to change.

It would be perfect except that the fingerprint protection includes forcing the screen refresh rate to the lowest common denominator. Scrolling is unbearable.

They need to report whatever number they want while always using the highest rate instead.

I just blocked it’s Internet access

My family is all on iMessage. I told them if they didn’t install Signal I wouldn’t reply to their texts.

At first, whenever they texted I would just reply with something that looked automated like “This user is no longer available via text message. Please install Signal if you wish to communicate.”