Comment on Skyrocketing bluesky engagement since opening to the public

• airportline@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  idk. After they dropped invite codes, they started requiring phone numbers for sign up.

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because those aren’t incredibly easy to spoof or anything?

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    • deur@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Exactly, they aren’t.

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      • loki@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I registered with a VoIP number that a free app gave me. I doubt they’re blocking all the freely available “temp sms” numbers out there.

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    • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can spoof caller ID but you can’t spoof a number to receive texts to it. Can you imagine?

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      • Breve@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh actually it’s worse than that. There are online companies that offer online SMS services that can receive messages from real phone numbers by essentially telling your carrier you want text messages forwarded to them. Obviously they usually make you prove that you own the number before requesting forwarding, but there’s ways around that. I’ve known several people who’ve had their online accounts broken in to because someone hijacked their phone number’s SMS in order to perform password resets or bypass 2FA.

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• psud@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m one of those people, definitely not a bot. A friend with several invitations to the beta available offered me one a few days ago and then it was opened so I didn’t need it

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  • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hope you dont think I was saying it was ONLY bots. Ofc there are humans on there.

    Im jc how many are bots.

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