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Personally, I care about the phone number requirement not because I don't want to reveal it to Signal servers, but because it limits access to Signal for people in countries that block their SMS service - registration messages just don't arrive
It's specific to signal? Like they want to block people registering or what's up with that SMS block?
Not specific to Signal. I believe he was referring to places where Twilio doesn't serve, for example because of sanctions.