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Signal is working on registration without a phone number. But what form will it take?
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How's it easy?
Not the technical part (which definitely looks as easy as just dropping a requirement), but the spam/abuse prevention part.
It's pretty easy to detect spam. I guess user reports and noticing when someone suddenly messages many new users and those users do not respond.
Anyway, it's not an issue on Wire or SimpleX or the dozens of other platforms that don't require phone numbers. It's obviously a solved problem. Signal is just making up fake excuses.
Tell that to... any social media. Lol. If was easy to detect bot you think they not big problem anymore.
Social media is different from a platform that's literally just DMs.
It's not so easy, because you could even register a new account for each new spam message, or register 100k accounts & only send out 3 messages a day / account..
Obviously not. Because this isn't an issue elsewhere