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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).
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Avoiding an identifier tied to your identity, hiding identity from governments or people who know your number.
Use a virtual phone number.
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Instead I will like to have an invisible option on TG, which will neither inform anyone that have saved my number in their contact, that I have joined nor to people in my contacts, neither searchable through my number even for those people who r in my contacts, i.e. nobody can see that I am on TG.
And for the legality u can use other platform for more security or keep belief that ur data won't be handed over to any government agencies.
I guess that problems is not spammers, but something else, that not speaking.
Here in China, Telegram's phone verification messages are sent by a local company which is perfectly glad to share any data with the gov according to regulations.
So the fact is, that Gmail, with email registration, deals with spam far better, than Telegram, with phone number registration.
Phone number does not help to prevent spam.
I guess that you can settle who can contact you as well who can search for you and even add to groups.