CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@mdiluz shower though: YT is doing the same btw. More slowly but definitely also moving in this direction.

@mdiluz good point. It's a rather good alternative to anything else tied to a phone number though. And to this date I got zero spam over this, thanks to that entry fee I guess.

Indeed not really for the scope of the discussion.

@mdiluz @philipdrobar it's really only a few bucks for a "lifetime" and it can be purchased directly without involvement of e.g. the Google App Store. It's also available as direct download or on F-Droid. That is quite something in that space and sure keeps all the damn spam/scam bots out.

It was also sold [again] this year: https://comitiscapital.com/news/comitis-capital-announces-the-acquisition-of-threema

Jury is still out but since when does this mean any good for users.

@pitchingniblick haha same. Some blobbycompanies won't accept such mails though - probably exactly because of the confusion this might cause. For those I have rot13(blobbycompany)