Seems like discord is asking people to verify their accounts with phone numbers nowadays. I guess I won’t be using it anymore? :🤷

  • Ziglin@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Why a phone number? Not everyone has a phone and most companies don’t get my number.

    • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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      7 months ago

      I assume it’s because it scales poorly. You can’t readily source 500 phone numbers, while you could spool up a $5 per month VPS and host 500 email addresses.

      They don’t really want to match you so much as adding a stumbling block to someone making a bazillion accounts.