Sometimes it depends on discord itself finding you suspicious, for some definition of suspicious. perhaps a user agent whitelist? lack of Google cookie?
Comment on FLOSS communities right now
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 2 months agoWait 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.
vvv@programming.dev 2 months ago
premeena@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Its a moderation tool. Server admins can choose to only allow users who are verified by a phone number.
vvv@programming.dev 2 months ago
I’ve had it happen on servers where that moderation option is not enabled. My worst experience was trying to join a friend group’s discord via an invite link shared with me. I was prompted to create an account with email, and I did. I was then shown a read-only view of the server: I could see all messages and other folks could see I joined and 👋 to me. I could not send messages myself, however, without verifying with a phone number. Further, I couldn’t use a Google voice number (my primary number) to verify, nor my “real” number which was associated to another account.
snooggums@kbin.social 2 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.
FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I had the exact same experience. Was just trying to sign up for an account, not join anything
KeenFlame@feddit.nu 2 months ago
Maybe you guys should just not be so suspicious (sarqasm brother chill)