Argh, I am attending a time limited project as a volunteer.

[pvagner@fedi.ml]

Argh, I am attending a time limited project as a volunteer. The organization I'll be working with asks me to join and participate in a whatsapp conversations. I don't want to register my phone number with whatsapp.
What shal I do?

[tamasg@mindly.social]

@pvagner easiest would be to sign up with a texting service online that's 3rd-party in your country, get a temp number and register that for Whatsapp. Not great since you'd be marshaling two phone numbers, but fairly transparent after you set it up and they'd just see that online number, but of course would get confusing when texting friends or family on there.

[pvagner@fedi.ml]

@Tamasg Oh thanks.
I did not know such services exist.
Can you please recommend one?
I don't care what a number I'll get if it's for a few euro and can be easily cancelled in a month or so.

[tamasg@mindly.social]

@pvagner hmm. I think for Europe (I mostly know of US ones) you could try Telfon: https://mytelfon.com - interesting they use Twilio as the backend for VOIP, so you're kind of paying for two things in one. TextNow and a lot of the US ones don't really tell you the backend bits lol.