• hottari@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    This is how Signal should have been designed in the first place.

    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Without phone-number based contact finding signal wouldn’t be relevant enough to matter.

      • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        IRC, AIM, and BBM did ok without it. We humans like talking to each other. We figure it out.

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          Those were before the smartphone era.

          Humans like to talk to each other, but when an easier choice exist the slightly harder one doesn’t stand a chance.

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          Arent these 3 pretty irrelevant now(in the general population)? That doesn’t show a good track record.