I came here to find this comment. Moderation and censorship are so profoundly confused with each other so often. And without any moderation, bots and scam will take over every kind of content eventually.

The latter is true unfortunately. Because of understandable security reasons they gave up the SMS integration about a year ago since it’s unencrypted and not a good fit to the security standards of signal.

Until there is some form of open interconnection between messaging apps there will be no end to WhatsApp.

Don’t get me wrong, signal is a great alternative, but it does not achieve more then it’s core value of security, and this will never be enough.