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>>mikece+(OP)
Wish they provided some numbers of actual messages, type etc. per day. Seems like a good game plan would be.

1) Get off the major cloud providers that charge insane egress fees. 2) Remove SMS verification. A simple solution might be the app gives you a code and then you dial in to them and punch in the code to them. Like a reverse voice based authentication. 3) Remove voice and video calling for non donating users. 3) Remove media texting until both users allow a p2p connection. 4) Remove no contact list message hosting for non donating users.

Lot of unpleasant trade offs there. But I would rank having a text based private messaging app as the top feature. Everything else is a "very" nice to have. I applaud what they are doing and the sacrifices that have been made so far.

>>nwelli+jm
About the SMS verification, it depends on the goal. If the goal is to verify a phone number, you can't trust the _sender's_ address in the phone network.

So, you can't trust the address in the "From" on an SMS or the "From" of a phone call.

That means a voice call to Signal would not work to validate phone numbers.