How the fuck they decide what is a burner vs a phone owned by people who don't like getting raped by the likes of AT&T is beyond me.
Edit: Per suggestion below, one option is textverified.com. I have verified this works. You can pay with crypto. As little as 75c
To make an account or to join certain servers? If they started doing the former I'm full on abandoning the platform, screw all the projects housed there. Some things belong on the clearweb and for everything else, there's open-source and federated alternatives just complicated enough to scare the walled-garden phone Stans.
Join some servers I have noticed I am not giving them my phone number, fuck that. I also noticed for making a new account it can get "flagged" and you NEED a valid phone number. I got locked out of one alt I had.
I think individual server admins can require a verified phone number for their servers.
To do a lot. But you can make an account without one,.