"I won't trust an individual who won't even use a real name"
That's the hard privacy-killing argument of corporations. And only cultural change can help it.
That's the hard privacy-killing argument of corporations. And only cultural change can help it.
So much for privacy.
anyway, I hear they're working on it.
To remove that functionality would be equivalent to removing the ability to look up if a Signal message can be sent to a particular number. At least as long as phone numbers are used as the sole identifier for Signal accounts—another decision that has been debated into the ground, of course, but was done for understandable reasons.
that is mostly a UX problem, not a technical problem: people are surprised that signal tells others that they created an account, and this isn't a pleasant surprise IME. doubly so (more, actually) if you've got a stalker who has your phone number.
Privacy != Anonymity
The other way around you could be at a nightclub in a big city where nobody knows you and do the most i timate stuff publicly (but protected by anonymity).
Of course if you have privacy and anonymity what you do will have even stronger protections, which could be especially useful in the internet, where the biggest part of our conversations is not ephemeral but persists. But to defend Signal here, this is actually something you could choose with their disappearing messages.