Everyone returns to email in the end. We are there already. #whatsapp wants you to add your email to secure your account ... despite all the nay sayers and numerous well funded attempts and claims to kill #email not even WA can do it. #deltachat #chatmail and #webxdc are about deep collab between people, projects and operators to evolve email from within. It is not just about SMTP and IMAP and MIME and OpenPGP which are all exchangeable and can be improved ... Which we set out to do. Cheers.

@delta Very handy to combine mobile numbers with email addresses.

@brazel @delta because it’s easier to correlate users activity online to their email address for tracking purposes 😉

@madkiwi @brazel you are both of.course correct. Whatsapp very likely wants email addresses to improve.meta's tracking machine accuracy and reach, and sell it under "for your security" because it sounds much better.