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How does being email-based instead of phone-number-based meaningfully help security? I would understand something like non-federated Matrix, where only approved users have accounts on your instance. Less phishing at the cost of convenience.
They have no clue what is safe or dangerous or reasonable or stupid. For a few decades now, the Internet has been "Neuland" to them, that is, unexplored country. These geriatric chucklefucks couldn't be arsed to seriously and systematically explore it if you held a gun to their head.
(I don't advocate holding guns to their head, for the record. It wouldn't solve the systematic issue underpinning their incompetence. It would also give them advance warning.)
... or they could just use Molly if they want to sign up with just their email and not a phone number but otherwise still use all the same privacy tech
Just checked Molly, still requires phone number to register. Isn't it an alternative app for Signal?
Damn I thought getting rid of the phone number requirement was the prime reason Molly forked so idk
You can also run a Matrix site federated but fully private and get similar security with more features.
Yes, it's a dumb idea. I imagine the idea is that you can tell if an email is from a government domain or not.