And back in the day apps used to ask for your email password to find your contacts and I never did that either. Having to manually exchange usernames is a trad

And back in the day apps used to ask for your email password to find your contacts and I never did that either. Having to manually exchange usernames is a tradeoff I have mo problem making against having to provide my social graph to a corporate entity or having people able to do a basically public identifier lookup to my private life. I'm surprised recruiters haven't started spamming signal yet - they certainly have my phone number in DBs against my will, and 1 has tried it on whatsapp.