[antipotoad]

Having to give a phone number to join the waitlist is not so nice. Can’t think of any good reason not to accept an email.

[mcast]

Why not? It allows the company to easily tailor its algorithms and content towards a user's political/religious/geographic views. Surely that would never be abused! /s

[squokko]

Easier for one person to spin up 1000 emails than 1000 phone numbers.

[jefftk]

I think you mean the other way around?

[taftster]

Really? That's crazy. At least at one point, spinning up phone numbers was significantly harder and much more deterrent against account generators than was email addresses. What has changed to make phone numbers easier to generate and email addresses harder?

[ro_bit]

Luckily this seems to be one of the rare places on the internet where a VOIP number works

[rchaud]

They're pre-revenue with no ad product yet. They really just need the numbers to show investors how much interest there is.

Once they actually have to leverage that phone number info, you can be sure that whatever you signed up with won't work anymore.