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Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
(signal.org)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
No, I think they are merely working on user ids no longer mandating to be your phone number (so that it can be pseudonymous, e.g. tja@signal instead of +xx0123456@signal), I don't believe they hope to drop SMS verification at this point because of the spam issue getting worse otherwise
Ah yes, good point! ๐