who's this mythical person who wants phone number integration though?

I don't know of any person who as much as cares about that, it's just a requirement imposed by the (snooping) platform providers as far as I'm concerned, and one that excludes (as in phase out) other computing platforms to force the cattle towards the slaughterhouse

the challenge of interoperation that we're up against walled gardens full of prisoners, not that we don't use phone numbers that enable user tracking

apps that work on phones, but not exclusively on phones, are certainly part of the solution. but they need no integration whatsoever with phone numbers. phones are mobile computers with tracking devices on them. we need to focus on the mobile computers part, and reject the user-tracking aspects with as much strength as possible

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