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You currently need a phone number to sign up for Telegram. Add an option to sign up using an email address or another method, like some messengers do (e.g., Wire, Matrix, Threema, Session).
Potential spam issues could be mitigated by:
Avoiding an identifier tied to your identity, hiding identity from governments or people who know your number.
Use a virtual phone number.
Warning: Do NOT use temporary numbers to connect to your account, as you may lose access to your account when you lose access to the number.
This has no connection to the proposal but only with "identity tracking" issue.
Using phone numbers is safer for various reasons and there are better algorithms there to prevent spam & fake accounts (i.e. certain phone numbers ranges are blocked). Let's say you got banned for sending spam, promoting violence, pornographic content or child porn — you could easily change your IP address, get a new email address and get back to your business on Telegram in just 5 minutes.
Also, Telegram values its disk space greatly: allowing users to sign up just using an email address would massively increase the user grow rate — probably more than 10 more times than the current one — and therefore it would require more servers & disk space.
pornographic content or child porn — you could easily change your IP
address, get a new email address and get back to your business on
Telegram in just 5 minutes.
No! You can't! The purpose of this proposal it's precisely this: if you create an account with e-mail, you can't write in groups that do not allow that and you can't start conversations to people that you are not mutual-contact with
The read-only thing is still complicated and not very user-friendly as I've said before.
Plus, I know families that share only one phone# per household because of poverty.
I believe that by implementing an alternaltive to the phone# requirement will make the platform more accessable