> Then they just bought my actual cell number from my credit card company
replyHoly moly, don't you have any law at all to protect people's privacy ?
in the US? no.
replyBut I don't think that's the case for Bluesky
replyIt's because of spam. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
replyIronically AI could fix this when trivial spam detection inference becomes cheap enough to throw away on every upload.