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Wait and see what happens when Google removes traditional tracking from Chrome and every sites start requiring registration to access content !
You should check out the impact of gold production also.
Pow does not limit spam in bitcoin. Fees do. Pow is used as a decentralized election mecanism to distribute the block production.
They will allow to hide your phone number from your profile, but what about your profile name ? This will identify you after your username is used. So you must also remove your name from your profile, this will confuse your previous contacts (I'm not sure if names come from profile or contact list actually).
I feel the options for phone number display are not sufficient to have several privacy profiles.
You would likely face another issue in that scenario: briar + hotspot draining your battery.
A phone number will always be required to limit bot accounts.
I stopped following sites with dubious commercial tactics like the one you mention. After all, information is not so rare these days.
I'll be waiting for the dialer, sms, and contact apps in f-droid. Gallery is there already. Too bad I donated a couple of times to Tibor; wish you all the best anyways !
The Facebook mobile webapp works just fine nowadays. Pretty sure it's even possible to enable notifications in most web browsers. I still don't get why people are willfully installing apps instead of just pinning web browser bookmarks.
What about a lemmy community ? I noticed the Github «discussion» tab also.