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See, there's an apparently archaic concept in software called user preference - they could ask people upon joining if they want to be contact-discoverable or no

• eximius 7y ago
  And that's fair! It's not perfect. And, ignorantly, I would assume it'd be easy to add, so they probably should. But I can understand why this is a trade-off they'd make in terms of your comfort level (relatively rare to care about this) vs. massive use-ability and onboarding gains.
  • seemslegit 7y ago
    What you call "comfort level" is in fact the primary value proposition of a tool like signal and the fact that they have chosen to compromise on it to drive adoption is symptomatic of the many things wrong with the setting in which this decision was made. Not unlike calling out the EARNIT senators on using child abuse justifications in bad faith to promote the agenda of censorship and surveillance.