Other users. Anonymity only works if you don't paint a unique identification on your mask.

That said, I would like all users to look degoogled.

Signal isn't anonymous. The server has access to your IP addresses and the server can at will build social graphs about the users.

Where Signal's safety in numbers happens is in normalization of end-to-end encryption. Users who want to protect their message content are not standing out from the rest, unlike in e.g. Telegram where the vendor sees with whom you enable secret chats.

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mmooss 10 minutes ago | parent [-]

> The server has access to your IP addresses and the server can at will build social graphs about the users.

How could it build a social graph? I think most messages are P2P unless the user activates relaying?

	▲	fwn a minute ago \| parent [-]
		It's a hard problem, worth making some trade-offs. Signal published an interesting blog post about this, including this passage: > In order to turn the address book on a device into a social graph for Signal, the Signal client needs to be able to determine which of the device’s contacts are Signal users. [...] The obvious problem with this method is that the hash of a user identifier can almost always be inverted. Src.: https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/

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fwn an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

(Not to object the degoogeling, but:) To create a Signal account, you have to validate a phone number. So Signal is currently largly about privacy, not anonymity.

FWIW I wouldn't know why to message someone if I didn't know who they were. The same goes for them not knowing who I am. What would we even talk about?