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@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ This project generates a spreadsheet that looks like this:
 Each cell is the total message count for a user in a chat.
 
 The goal is to afford distributed collection of group participation metadata
-from a community that uses disparate signal groups. No one participant in the
-group is a member of every group, so we need to make use of multiple users'
-signal data.
+from a community that uses disparate signal groups. No one member of the
+community is a member of every signal group, so we need to make use of multiple
+users' signal data.
 
 I personally would not at all feel comfortable sending someone my decrypted
 signal database, so I implemented this as a dockerized python command line tool