Want your friends' display names to never update to what they actually are, to the point where you end up accidentally calling them a deadname? or just show up as a phone number for some reason? Want to get outed to random offline friends and family? Want to also accidentally reveal your phone number to random people on the internet? Want to have basically no added value over just leaving a person in your chats list?

Well congratulations! You are the first and only person on earth that Telegram's concept of "contacts" is useful for.


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in reply to @woob's post:

More broadly, how did we get to this point where "privacy-centric" IM programs (although Telegram isn't even that since E2E is not on by default) are all tied to a phone number - one of the least-anonymous things that you can have in many countries

Offence to injury, Telegram will gladly sell you an anonymous "number" (that works only in Telegram) for crypto.