[einpoklum]

Yeah, those announcements on Signal and Telegram are super-annoying and awkward.

You draw the attention of people with whom you have perhaps decided to let the relationship cool, and suddenly: "Hey, [YOURNAME] is here! Remember him? And how you have unfinished business? Why don't you message him right now?" :-(

[AshamedCaptain]

This is outright ridiculous. I refuse to get into most "social" networks for this type of crap and now this practically confirms me I should never get into these crappy centralized IM networks.