Comment on FLOSS communities right now

vvv@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• snooggums@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The worst part is that they act like you can set up an account without a number, but then it acts like there is 'suspicious activity' and requires you to verify with the phone immediately.

  Just rant into this yesterday trying to set up a work account as my work phone is not a mobile phone with sms.

  Was registering really suspicious?

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  • deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wait I thought this was depended on the Discord channel?

    I’ve got a Discord account and I’m in a lot of different channels for FLOSS and other things, I’ve never set up a phone number. I have occasionally come across certain channels that I can’t join because they require me to have a phone number authentication, but most of them don’t seem to.

    Not to defend Discord, by the way. It’s fucking terrible and I despise this trend of telling people to come to your little private clubhouse to learn more about your software so I can sort through a bunch of obnoxious gifs and use an absolutely terrible search engine.

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    • snooggums@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That is what the help files say, but when I tried to register a work account yesterday it did the verify you are human, then said there was something suspicious and sent the email verification, then said there was something suspicious and is now requiring a phone verification even though I did not enter a phone number.

      At no point was I ever signed in and able to even pick a channel. This all happened while trying to log in foe the first time through the browser at work with my work email. I guess that someone else might not hit that phone requirement as I only tried to do the registration once, but it is in no way limited to joining a particular channel.

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      • FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I had the exact same experience. Was just trying to sign up for an account, not join anything

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    • vvv@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sometimes it depends on discord itself finding you suspicious, for some definition of suspicious. perhaps a user agent whitelist? lack of Google cookie?

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      • premeena@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Its a moderation tool. Server admins can choose to only allow users who are verified by a phone number.

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• AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Same. It makes it much easier for someone to doxx you.

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  • CliveRosfield@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nobody besides you can see your phone number. How on Earth does it make you doxxable?

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    • AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I was talking about this part:

      I generally prefer not to have a shared identity across communities

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      • CliveRosfield@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s fair. I agree it should have an option to use a different identity per server while having your account centralized only on their service.

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• Scoopta@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  🤔…is this a new requirement? I have 2 accounts. Neither with phone numbers and it’s never asked me for one

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  • Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s decided by server. Most require it to cut down on spamming and trolls

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    • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you dm the mods they might let you in but idk. I tried it once but they couldn’t get it working

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    • Scoopta@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah, I’ve only had one guild require it and I told them to fly a kite XD…I thought this was becoming a general thing and I was going to be really annoyed

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