Yes, a privacy first communications system, trying to cater to a "tictock" mentality didn't exactly inspire much confidence.
I never liked it anyway, having to expose your DID, then arguably misleading new users into letting it farm your contact database, resulting with anyone having your phone number in their contacts being notified that moment you create an account.
There's s growing trend though, where folks are listing their matrix addresses instead of their email address.
@tallship I disagree on the "farming contact" part. #signal goes to extreme lengths[^1] to carry out contact discovery in a private fashion. Plus, they're working on a new feature that would allow users to prevent their accounts to be searchable/discoverable, allegedly coming out the same time as usernames.
All Signal knows about their users are: the time of account creation and that of the last connection to the server[^2].
@jay
[^1]: https://signal.org/blog/building-faster-oram/
[^2]: https://signal.org/bigbrother/
@tallship I disagree on the "farming contact" part. #signal goes to extreme lengths[^1] to carry out contact discovery in a private fashion. Plus, they're working on a new feature that would allow users to prevent their accounts to be searchable/discoverable, allegedly coming out the same time as usernames.