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What's the best messaging platform?
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There is no best, because none of them cover every use case or threat model. However, these are worth considering:
In situations where your safety depends on anonymity from the powerful or well-connected, I would instead look for a messaging system tailored for such things. (It would, of course, require giving up some convenient features that most of us expect from a general-purpose chat platform.)
I think Signal dropped the phone number requirement, didn't they?
As far as I know you still need a phone number to create an account. But for connecting you can use the new usernames (and make sure to disable automatic number sharing with contacts in the settings).
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