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darkfirefly on Jan 29, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Security professionals often warn against Telegram

Telegram doesn't require your phone number? It did for me to sign up.

selykg on Jan 29, 2021 [–]

Sorry, you don't need to use your phone number to contact someone. You can just give them your Telegram username. Which is sufficient for me in my use case for Telegram.

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