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Just a reminder that Signal supports both censorship circumvention and independently hosted proxies (e.g. Search Twitter, etc. for proxy links using the #IRanASignalProxy hashtag.)

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360056052052-Pr...

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Does Signal support signup without a phone number yet? Otherwise Iranian telcos could easily eat Signal's SMSs to block signups.

Signing up is a one time thing though.

I believe Telegram is the private messaging app of choice within Iran.

Iran has blocked Telegram in 2017 and 2018. Presumably they could be doing that as well soon which is why I was highlighting some Signal features to help.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_in_Iran

It's blocked but it's still working with MTProxies. VPNs aren't working in Iran (a friend told me) and he's surprised Telegram is the only app that's working fine.

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