Hoarding =/= collecting the bare necessities. Signal needs one piece of data to ...

		brnt on Feb 21, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Keep your phone number private with Signal usernam... Hoarding =/= collecting the bare necessities. Signal needs one piece of data to distinguish users from each other, and collects that. Hoarding would be to collect (significantly) more pieces of identifying data, more than needed to distinguish users. Signal does not appear to be doing that.