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Re:Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know by detaro on Monday August 15, 2022 @02:07PM (#32473177)
Signals very explicit goal is making something that's usable for everybody. If they'd wanted to make a nerd-messenger they'd make a different product.

(I still consider it a major downside that the phone number is the only lookup key)

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Re:Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know by daneel_w on Monday August 15, 2022 @02:22PM (#32473371)
Sounds pretty drastic to me to draw the line between "everybody" and "nerds" at the point of the contact book being available or not.
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Re:Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know by detaro on Monday August 15, 2022 @02:32PM (#32473488)
Feel free to insert your word choice of "smartphone-flipping demographic" instead. The point is that if you argue based on "the crowd that goes for signal", that crowd being everyone is the clear aim of Signal, and thus they design around that goal.
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