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You think making contact discovery much more difficult for people will make them more likely to select Signal as their preferred chat app? Especially if you are
by goatsi 7y ago
You think making contact discovery much more difficult for people will make them more likely to select Signal as their preferred chat app? Especially if you are asking them to replace Facebook Messenger. If they are willing to message people using their real name, I don't think hiding their phone number from them will be a great draw.
- cartoonworld 7y agoI totally agree, but I also totally disagree that supporting this alternate use case will make the app worse for naive, regular users to discover their grandma is on Signal. Im asking for an alternative canonical source of identity other than an extremely trustworthy telco. Some other conglomerated examples are: Scanning a QR code in person to initiate discovery, or querying other data in the phone's "contacts" PIM app for example, email, or more imaginatively, keybase, or maybe mail out QR codes to residential address for a nominal fee?