While not illegal, basically nothing I would do on Telegram is something I would want associated with my IRL phone number, lol. Of course, Telegram is very much set up to prevent the creation of an account without a phone number, even though they have a desktop client.

The closest I've got is those websites that let you receive texts to a phone number, but if they work at all, the free ones have already been used to make telegram accounts. It's frustrating because basically every other website/social media account that exists, I've been able to sign up with a free anonymous burner email or something if I really wanted to. I don't like to basically give out my doxx if it's not for official business/family stuff.

Those of you who use Telegram, are you just all using your real phone number? Are you spending money on burner phones or premium SMS websites?

Well, maybe not even everybody here would agree if I said "Burggit needs more users" but I feel like it's turned into kind of a ghost town. You can see right in the sidebar we're sitting at 100 users a week. I certainly wish there were more people here. Especially if you hide NSFW, there's only a few posts a day and almost all of them have 0-2 comments. That sucks because I think this is cool as more than just "the loli lemmy". (Even though that's good too).

Of course, Lemmy quickly fractured into mass defederation and basically every instance is pretty atomized now, even the "big" instances. I don't think we get a lot of people checking out from other instances. I would bet with the way modern Google works, nobody is coming here from a google search either lol.

So, is there anything that's fun to link to Burggit on other sites that you guys have been sharing? I sometimes link people here from Reddit if they're looking for real incest stuff, since I always was bothered about how Reddit has an unwritten rule that it's banned but never says so explicitly, and there's posts at least once a week from people looking for it who often get told that if it's not on Reddit it must not exist. More importantly, I think the same is true for some SFW topics.

Of course, the front page is full of loli and people are kinda hostile to that these days. I just wish we could get 1% of the people who used to subscribe to all the loli themed subreddits (including SFW/memes) that were banned in the unofficial big loli purge, that would be enough to make it lively here lol.

What bigger Lemmy instances do you guys like for talking about gaming, current events, general meme posting etc? Burggit is great ofc but, it's also very small. I was hopeful about sh.itjust.works but they got filled with the sort of people of made Reddit lousy in the first place fast, I'm not too hopeful for it long term. Also, if I'm on another instance, there's no risk of posting "normal" stuff and having it tied to this account, hah!