They force you to enter your phone number if your IP address is fishy, or if your email provider is not popular.
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banneryear1868@lemmy.world 10 months agoRequires a phone number
It’s just an email based user ID, I have multiple Discord accts and never used a phone number with it
myxi@feddit.nl 10 months ago
banneryear1868@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Enforcing two factor because of suspicious indicators isn’t bad on it’s own though, it’s privacy concerns about Discord preceding this which makes it a bad thing in this context.
technom@programming.dev 10 months ago
Using phone numbers as second factor authentication is neither secure, nor is it in good faith. Force the customer to use something more anonymous and secure - like Fido keys or even TOTPs. Sneaking in ways to force the customer to reveal their personal details, in the name of security is a sinister dark pattern.
banneryear1868@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Phone number is the weakest form of 2FA but it’s still an improvement. I’ve never had to use my phone in Discord though, I don’t how Discord would even verify someone’s phone number as legitimate. But like I said I have a couple Discord accounts with different emails, probably on 30-40 servers, and have never run in to this. So if they’re collecting personal details in this really granular and specific manner, it seems like they’re not doing a very good job at it.
SteveTech@programming.dev 10 months ago
Some discord servers can require a verified phone number, not any I know of, but it can be enabled.
banneryear1868@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t know of any either and I’m on like 40+ servers probably. I’ve run our weekly dnd on it for years without issue after trying the other options. Get that it’s not good for tracking and documentation but it’s pretty damn good for active niche interest communities.
The music production servers I’m on are a perfect use of the platform IMO. There’s a server run by a guy who manufactures an open source tracker device, and there’s channels where people post works in progress, get help from others, there’s streaming events where people can submit songs they’ve made using the device, etc. There’s a bunch of people popular in the music scene who regularly help noobs. When people are like “Discord sucks use my favorite platform instead” I’m just like I don’t care about the platform that much I wanna be where some cool shit is happening and your platforms are fucking boring.
Iapar@feddit.de 10 months ago
Show me the music servers :D
banneryear1868@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The one I referenced there was the Dirtywave discord, highly recommend checking it out, and I think they have a channel for partner servers. The lines forum is also a great community if you’re in that musical space. I couldn’t name a good music discord for lets say traditional genres or general production, the thing I like about what I’ve found is it’s niche. Like once I posted a work in progress and someone active in a scene for the genre I was going for messaged me and we chatted about our approaches and traded some instrument and project files we’d built on the device, all though discord.
So to me I want that type of community, what platform it’s on isn’t really something I care about all that much.