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Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network by kwhitefoot on Friday March 10, 2023 @01:20PM (#35098610)
No he wasn't. Most of the people I have connected to via social networks do not appear in my phone contacts. And the social networks themselves do not have my phone number.
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Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network by UncleEntity on Friday March 10, 2023 @01:58PM (#35099224)
> And the social networks themselves do not have my phone number.

Yeah, they probably do…

Back in the before times people would keep up with their “Social Networks” by running into them at parties or whatever and “Update their Status”. Sometimes people would even “PM” each other over dinner and drinks outside of these “Group Chats”.

Hard to believe, I know, but somehow the human race managed to keep going.

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Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network by kwhitefoot on Friday March 10, 2023 @04:29PM (#35101354)
> Yeah, they probably do…

If so then they got it from some one else outside the network because it never appears in my conversations and I use the networks exclusively via a web browser.

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Re:Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network by olah_1 on Friday March 10, 2023 @02:24PM (#35099499)
Phone numbers became a “bigger deal” when they started being abused.

People just started using instagram as a first means of contact because it felt less personal. It allowed for more “escape hatches” if it turns out that you don’t like the person so much.

If phone numbers allowed for varying levels of trust like instagram, it would work as a social network today like it once did in the past

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