I remember a time when visiting a website that opens a javacript dialog box asking for your name so the message “hi <name entered>” could be displayed was baulked at.

Why does signal want a phone number to register? Is there a better alternative?

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    1 day ago

    If you want to be mainstream a) you can’t have spammers, scammers, and all the other scum of the earth and b) finding your contacts in the app HAVE TO be plug and play. Literally no normie will bother adding with usernames or whatever.

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      22 hours ago

      finding your contacts

      Wrong, it is not optional, does not stop spam and the worst way to try.

      Do not let this derail us. Escaping to libre software is the best return on investment.