[lxgr]

> In EU countries you can easily and anonymously get a US number that works fine on Signal.

How? And even if that's feasible (for many people I'd argue it's too big a hurdle) it still only gets you pseudonymity.

There are some interesting encrypted messaging ideas floating around that allow you to have per-contact or even per-conversation keys or multiple identities for different contexts; Signal is just not doing much in that regard.

[sneak]

It is completely anonymous, there is no link from the telephone number used to register to the person using it.

[lxgr]

Yes, but you only have one number/identifier that links you across all contexts. That’s a pseudonym, which is a different thing from being anonymous.

You’d need multiple phones and a phone number per context to be actually anonymous. That’s just not practicable for many people, I’d say.