Signal deleted my account, maybe because I don't have a phone, and only login with signal-cli every once in a while to rotate keys. Fuck this shit, forcing people via a social graph to own a smartphone is super fucked up.

#Digitalzwang

@compl4xx

Und das nenne ich Kipppunkt...

Es tut mir leid...

Es gibt da erfreulicherweise noch dieses andere via E-Mail, wie heißt das noch gleich...🤔

@Laempel haha ja, zum Glück sieht man noch andere Kontaktdaten in der Bio, und dass der Account tot ist
@compl4xx expecting this to happen to me at some point too lol
@compl4xx signal deleted one of my accounts because my phone broke on vacation and antispam wouldn't let me re-register with a number outside of the local region :/
@lillian yeah, it's a shitshow
@compl4xx maybe bridges like beeper.com can help keep it active? but maybe needs a phone to link first…
@rosano that probably also just uses signal-cli, like I used so far 🤷

@compl4xx same here, I updated signal-cli to 0.14.1 and was able to register again tho

https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/issues/1961

@pomodoro yeah, that fixed it for me as well. Did it happen today as well for you?
@compl4xx yes, at least I did not see it before today, but I ran an outdated version of signal-cli, I suppose that it was using some deprecated thingies that were put out of commission on the first of the month by Signal...
@pomodoro yeah sounds likely. I was using 0.13.14 before
All accounts registered using signal-cli before 6 March 2026 are getting unregistered · Issue #1993 · AsamK/signal-cli

On 6 March, Signal enforced SPQR on new registrations. https://community.signalusers.org/t/server-updates-discussion/59632/468 Yesterday the server update was pushed, which enables the server to un...

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