> Great question! It's a good way to make it easy for general-purpose users with limited technical expertise to adopt, use, and find one another.

Don’t patronize me you glib shill. There is no reason beyond tracking and surveillance to require a phone number. Rosenfeld’s admitted this already in a roundabout way and has claimed they’re “working on” not needing a phone number.

Any dissident could end up dead if they trust big tech with their phone number.