One of the biggest hurdles of using Signal by privacy enthusiasts is that it exposes your phone number to everyone and everywhere.
Today, they announced that they are introducing the usernames feature so that you don’t have to reveal your phone number to your contacts or other users.
Read the details from their announcement:
https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/
Very big win for privacy and happy news.
Consider donating to Signal if you haven’t already. They are one of the very few privacy-centeric applications on the Internet and they are indeed a huge service to the community.
https://signal.org/donate/