I've been collecting "signatures of hostility" from Bluesky profiles and "No DMs" is one of the most common, common enough that my agent [1] and I don't see it as a "no follow" sign.
[1] Still unnamed since it is in pieces on the floor, it probably gets named after a Tsunako character. KUrUMi?
When sites ask for a phone number what they are really saying is: give us this identifier that you can only acquire with a government-issued ID and a paid up ransom to a telecom. And if you later stop paying the ransom we can hand over your account to anyone who picks up the payment.
If any Brit politician could spell "competent", it seems like a good first move would be to disallow the sale of any phone which had had 2G enabled.
PaulHoule•7mo ago
https://frankonfraud.com/sms-blasters-the-fraud-machine-anyo...
Notably the 'blaster' is a fake cell phone station like a Stingray that bypasses any filtering your carrier does by... bypassing your carrier completely.