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How Signal walks the line between anarchism and pragmatism (www.wired.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because you want to use it to talk to your friends, who know who you are anyway? I don't get this need to wipe yourself completely from the face of the Earth.

[โ€“] grue 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

IMO the issue with Signal's lack of anonymity isn't that your friends know who you are; it's that Signal itself can build a graph of everybody's contacts.

I mean, yes, I understand that Facebook, Google and a bunch of other companies can get the same info, but if I'm going to switch to something to be an improvement I would ideally want it to improve all the way instead of halfway.