@mcfly@besendorf@signalapp Hm, I don't have that problem (yet?). My phone number isn't publicly known much, but my signal name I shared here on the Fedi :'-)
@ljrk Dunno if the more or less widely known phone number played a role - precisely at the moment where signal changed to usernames..... @besendorf@signalapp
@mcfly It's been having some of it, even before the names. I've been seeing it on numbers with very wide circulation - basically, a new form of phone spam. They obviously hide their number, and it makes things a little easier for them because you can't report the number directly, or elsewhere.
@mcfly But recent years were pretty different. Society was all-online for a couple of years, and so were spammers and data brokers. You know how easily those things can get lost...
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