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Discord now requiring phone number to login? (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Seems like discord is asking people to verify their accounts with phone numbers nowadays. I guess I won't be using it anymore? :🤷

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 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.