• nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Without phone-number based contact finding signal wouldn’t be relevant enough to matter.

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      IRC, AIM, and BBM did ok without it. We humans like talking to each other. We figure it out.

      • erwan@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Those were before the smartphone era.

        Humans like to talk to each other, but when an easier choice exist the slightly harder one doesn’t stand a chance.

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        1 year ago

        Arent these 3 pretty irrelevant now(in the general population)? That doesn’t show a good track record.