Truth social, last I checked, required a phone number and they’re almost exclusively made up of spam.
Doubtful. Getting a temporary phone number is as easy as getting a temporary email address.
Requiring email of phone numbers isn’t always something virtuous like stopping spam. It’s also often about first party data acquisition. Even if some people use burner accounts, most won’t, and that means more data to share with advertisers.
I’ve never gotten a spam message on Signal.
I’ve gotten a couple in the past few months, and it definitely seems to be a thing/have been a thing: https://www.howtogeek.com/721043/why-youre-getting-so-much-signal-spam-and-what-you-can-do/ https://www.androidpolice.com/signal-is-taking-the-fight-to-spammers-with-new-message-requests/
TIL. I didn’t even know this was a thing!
I used to get a bunch a couple years ago. Since then, I’ve deleted all Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Snapchat, etc. I only use Lemmy. No more spam or phone calls.
I also use separate phone and phone number for banking and actual important stuff so that phone is off until I need it so ymmv
I would not sign up a service that requires a telephone number.
Google voice has been around for a long long time. But I can’t use it for registration because it’s classified as a voip
Which is funny cause cell phones these days are voips.