Weekly readings and chill vibes
Please don’t use discord. It’s a platform that doesn’t allow people to participate anonymously, and it’s bad for privacy.
Use a throwaway email and don’t give personal info
That’s not possible on Discord. They require a phone number. Many countries have Mandatory SIM Registration laws that make it illegal to get a phone number anonymously.
And Discord will auto-ban your account just for using Tor Browser or other privacy addons in your web browser.
My point is: don’t use Discord. Use a service that allows you to only use a throwaway email.
Message sent from Tor Browser using an account on Lemmy registered with a throwaway email
This is misinformation. I use a throwaway email and they don’t have my phone number
Yeah? Go signup for a new account on Discord with Tor Browser and see how far you get.
This is not misinformation; it’s very informed information. I use Tor Browser everyday, so I know very well which services treat me like a second-class citizen and ban me just for existing (without doing anything bad). See also Paypal, Ebay, Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, 90% of banks, etc.
Unfortunately, most fraud detection systems these days use Machine Learning algorithms that ban you before or immediately after you create an account because they can’t uniquely fingerprint your session or because you “look” like someone who did something bad in the past (again because they can’t uniquely fingerprint you). These are false-positives, and they don’t care because not enough people complain about needing services for anonymous users.
I work in cybersecurity; this is a very informed opinion.
You’re literally saying things that aren’t true. I know you can use a throwaway email bc I use one. I know you don’t have to give your phone number because I never have had to.
I don’t want to use TOR, no thanks. We’re not discussing anything that requires that level of privacy in the server. We’re just reading theory and talking about it and sharing memes.
Anyway, no one is forcing you to join the discord. It might not be for you, but you’re not the only person on the internet. That’s why we have a lemmy comm too
Yeah exactly, you’re misinformed.
As soon as you use Tor Browser (which you won’t try), it’ll lock you your account until you give them your phone number and an OTP sent to that number.
We’re not discussing anything that requires that level of privacy
For some people, everything requires privacy. For some people, they can’t access the Internet without services like Tor.
You’re being intentionally dismissive of folks at-risk. That harms our community.
