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Re:Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp by pcthrowaway on Saturday June 21, 2025 @07:52AM (#44336814)
There's a practical reason for that; if they don't collect and store any other user information, they have no way to determine if someone trying to sign up is a bot or someone else trying to abuse the service.

I get far less spam messages on Signal than on telegram and discord, for example. There's a cost associated with setting up additional Signal accounts at the very least.

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Re:Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp by reconnecting on Saturday June 21, 2025 @08:00AM (#44336880)
Strongly disagree. As a creator of tirreno platform [1] I can say that behavioural patterns are more helpful in fraud prevention (including spam) than phone verification, a specially taking into account that phone numbers could be bought in bulk online.

[1] https://github.com/tirrenotechnologies/tirreno

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