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

  • horsey@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Yes, there was a significant controversy about this about a year ago.

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      8 months ago

      What triggers it? I’m currently abroad, so I suppose that might be the reason. But not really willing to give my phone number to discord. Is there no known workaround?

      It’s kinda bothersome that so many online groups are using it (or facebook).

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        8 months ago

        From what I understand, new signups aren’t allowed without a phone number now. As far as what makes them claim that and ask, as with other proprietary services, who knows? It could be a legitimate security reason, or it could be that they just made up some nonsense because they want to collect more data. Exactly like Facebook, yeah. I stopped using Facebook when they insisted I had to send them my driver’s license to sign in.

        There’s no way to bypass phone verificiation, but many people use various services to get a temporary fake number and verify with that.