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I guess I want to save money on a legacy mobile phone subscription whilst using a privacy phone to it's full extent so I can at least pretend to be normal to friends and family.

Rather than having the discussion that all my relatives and friends need to download simplex to be able to communicate with me. 😂

I temporarily retired my phone number for 2 weeks and realised how many people and services relied on using it.

Then I found a prepaid PAYG plan for $2 per year just to keep the number active.

I figure, as long as it can receive calls and texts (and forward them to me over the internet) that's pretty cheap.
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Pete Winn 🔆 2w ago

I can see that use case. I was thinking the normie number would be full of the usual spam, but this is more “normies you like who you’ve yet to privacy pill” 🤣

Calls wise you can often just straight forward from the phone. I’m not sure texts are as easy but perhaps you could load a number into a phone emulator then have everything delivered via Nostr :)

Or if they’re on what’s app you could run a bot on WhatsAppJS on the normie number and use that to forward to simplex :)

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TBone 2w ago

Ideally it would be a simple bridge from legacy calls and texts over the mobile network to a third party app.

That way, the sender doesn't need to have (or even know they're using) a third party app to communicate with me.

They dial a number, they reach me - even though I'm nowhere near my phone.

In bitcoin terms, they tap their credit card and get debited, but I get paid in sats.