There is also a group about Openstreetmap for users of Signal:
Global OpenStreetMap group.
This is not a channel of official OSM communication, refer to IRC and mailinglist instead. Only on-topic and mostly in English List of OSM centric Signal accounts - OpenStreetMap Wiki for other groups.
Why would you assume you have to share your phone number (or even have one). Never been the case for IRC, mailing lists, here on discourse or even Discord.
By the way, Signal works like Wikipedia or Openstreetmap, through donations. The users are NOT the product, like they are in Whatsapp etc (the user’s data is sold by the meta company, so Whatsapp doesn’t need donations nor direct advertisement in the app – but the data of the users is sold).