>use signal
and leak your phone number. great security advice right there 
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if someone who i don't want to talk to can message me on a "secure" platform just because they have my phone number from years ago then that doesn't really feel great from a security perspective
@katka@raru.re It also isn't great for my mental health. Back when I used Telegram, I was constantly worried about someone I know IRL starting to use it and seeing my obviously furry profile. Some of my contacts wiped their profiles out of nowhere because this exact thing happened to them. Horrible feature.
@KayFaraday@freak.university @katka@raru.re If it did, I 100% enabled it and it didn't stop another student from finding my profile
@volpeon I think they've added this during the Hong Kong protests not that long ago. To prevent the police from using phones of arrested protesters to track others they've had contact with.
@katka @KayFaraday
@9S @volpeon Those are Telegram's contacts, not your phone directory. You can deny the app access to your phone's contacts, never sync them and only add the ones you actually want. I did this and my Telegram has like four contacts or something like that.
Telegram shouldn't be trusted still, but at least this is avoidable.
