This is one reason why associating phone numbers with accounts in encrypted chat apps is bad practice. Looking at you Signal, Quicksy, and to a lesser extent Wire (supplying a phone numbers is at leas...
@nprofile1q... Has anyone found a better way to quickly onboard people to a new chat system?
(There are too many chat systems, but anyway...)
Whatsapp took over large parts of the world for exactly this reason. They were able to match your existing contacts and become immediately useful where SMS was a ripoff. If you have to physically swap credentials with everyone, the app will never get any users.
Using an email address is an option, but that is also metadata.
(There are too many chat systems, but anyway...)
Whatsapp took over large parts of the world for exactly this reason. They were able to match your existing contacts and become immediately useful where SMS was a ripoff. If you have to physically swap credentials with everyone, the app will never get any users.
Using an email address is an option, but that is also metadata.
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