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Are worried that this will be used by bigots to target LGBT+ people by just looking up listings and getting addresses of LGBT+ people? How are you protecting the people who post listings with addresses?

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Yes. It's a very obvious question particularly when OP specifically brings up a "safe place to live" which implies some level of vetting. I'm surprised to not see anything on their site as I write this about the service in the bottom or side nav. No "About Us", no FAQ, like who even IS this company? Without digging further I can't even see where this company is based (I'm assuming it's a registered company?). They should be addressing these basics in terms of "why trust us" I think?

Actually yeah this site is genuinely weird. Like if this was a phishing site for LGBT, which to be clear is unlikely, but if it was I'd expect it to look a bit like this. Zero info at all.

All these pages will launched in the following weeks. As they say in YCombinator "launch it ASAP". And we did it. Now we are tailoring it :)

Regarding the address privacy - The information is not provided by us. The user will receive the information by the listing owner, by private message.

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