What’s the current status of private messaging without a phone number?

We'll discuss this today during the Marmot community call at 16:00

Here: meet.fulmo.org/marmot

Community call in less than half an hour: https://meet.fulmo.org/marmot

Fully decentralized, end-to-end encrypted group messaging is harder than anyone admits. We're further into the problem than we've ever been... and this is what the inside of it looks like:

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We’re live https://meet.fulmo.org/marmot

Marmot community call in 40 minutes! There’s so much to talk about.

Join us here: https://meet.fulmo.org/marmot

Are you interested in private messaging apps, or do you want to build your own?

Join us today at 16:00 UTC to hear from the co-founders of White Noise ( @Max & @JeffG ) and learn more about the protocol on which it is built.

Ask us anything --> http://meet.fulmo.org/marmot

White Noise v2026.5.22 is out.

iOS push notifications are live. The Notification Service Extension decrypts the payload on your device, so Apple sees a delivery but not the message, the sender, or your identity. Messages now render markdown. There's a blocked users screen in Settings, deep links for chats and profiles, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese support.

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Most apps want your email and your phone. Then, a code sent to the number they just made you give them.

White Noise wants two taps. An identity that's only yours and works across all Nostr clients, not just here.

It’s not magic, it’s maths. 👇

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Telescreen --> smartphone.
Thought Police --> big data.
Room 101 --> echo chamber.
Ministry of Truth --> post-truth.

14 parallels between Nineteen Eighty-Four and surveillance in 2026.

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The new release is here and you can read more about it. Or you can just download the app and try it out for yourself 👇

https://primal.net/whitenoise/white-noise-next-release