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Just lie? Be “Steven X”, or “Steven DotCom”, or something. If your contacts wont be too confused, use a fake real last name like “Steven Neiderhoffer”.

I lie about any personal information I can online, thought that was SOP these days. Taint your data.

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I actually have a particular use case for not adding one - as a running joke I changed my Signal name to the screen name of a buddy that went AWOL. Adding a last name doesn’t work in this model.

So it’s not just about not wanting to share information, but it ruins a joke in the group chat I primarily use Signal for :/

To top it off, it specifically says it’s optional. But you get reminded every week to add one... but it’s totally optional.

As a possible extension to the "real fake" names, may I suggest some derivative of "P. A. Chapeau"? There is method to my madness as this name in particular is a pun on the french for "tinfoil hat" (that is, "papier aluminium chapeau", or more accurately "chapeau de papier d'aluminium").

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