[faktorialas]

I don't disagree with your general point, but I'm curious, why would having a privacy-focused app be embarassing? I'm curious what kind of attitude you have for it, or what you expect some of your contacts to think of it.

[thomasville]

Because it makes me look like a drug dealer. Which is to say it is easy for me to guess why most the people in my contacts who use Signal, use Signal. Some are journalists. Some are tech researchers. The guys with bad jobs who aren't good at computers make me wonder...

[faktorialas]

Sounds like the image we should move away from, so it gets better for everyone. While I don't disagree with your previous point, I think part of the reason for OWS to do this might be to nudge people like you towards this being mainstream, instead of okay, so why is this guy using this?

[lorenzhs]

Many of my contacts use Signal because some computery person that wants to talk to them kept telling them to use it. They're not techy themselves, but it's not suspicious at all in my opinion.