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Yep, I have the same result from whois

No, I don’t think so. I still think that it requires a different phone number on each phone. But I agree with you that it is annoying that they do not allow it, especially since they could simply imitate the functionality that exists on the desktop apps.

I mainly use Signal, but sometimes have to fall back to SMS for people that aren’t on Signal. I also have matrix accounts, but I never really use them since I don’t have anyone among my friends and family that uses matrix.

I wish PeerTube (or other similar alternatives) would seriously take off. But the cost of operating such a service at a large scale, and the fact that most content creators don’t even try to find or to set up alternatives, makes it very hard for YouTube to fail. It’s pretty sad because many of these same content creators will frequently complain about censorship and demonetization, without actually doing anything about it…

LineageOS on a Fairphone 3. It works well for what I do on my phone.

This. It makes it much more unlikely to see tons of reposts, and as such it will be easier to see new interesting stuff.