Comment by jacoblambda

> It may decrease privacy philosophically, but it isn't nefarious.

It doesn't decrease privacy. It decreases anonymity which is distinctly different.

> If you want a private messaging platform with zero prerequisite identity, use Briar.

Or Session which is a fork of Signal that runs it's own network using standard PKI instead of a phone number for identities and a decentralised message delivery/onion routing system.