Signal has started rolling out Signal Login, an optional registration method that allows users to create a Signal account without providing a phone number. The feature will be rolled out first on Android and will come to iOS later.
As we previously reported, Signal Login is not a free alternative registration method. Signal requires users who choose to register without a phone number to make a one-time payment. The price at launch is $2.99 / € 3.49, although this may vary by region and currency.
Having to pay shouldn’t be a thing, f that shit
How else would you solve the spam/bot problem on a system that already has > 100 million users?
Just don’t allow easily guessable identifiers
there is a spam problem??
there would be if it allowed unrestricted free accounts with zero barriers to entry, same with anything else like that.
I mean simple X doesn’t have this problem, I think. It has literally no identifiers.