They require you to have a phone number. I don't get why this is a bad thing for a social media site. They aren't collecting your phone number to sell it. They are collecting it because it an easy way to lower bot, spam, and ban envision accounts. Plus it adds basic security to user accounts. I'm pretty sure every social media site requires a phone number.
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#42They require you to have a phone number. I don't get why this is a bad thing for a social media site. They aren't collecting your phone number to sell it. They are collecting it because it an easy way to lower bot, spam, and ban envision accounts. Plus it adds basic security to user accounts. I'm pretty sure every social media site requires a phone number.
> They aren't collecting your phone number to sell it. They are collecting it because it an easy way to lower bot, spam, and ban envision accounts.
Both can be possible.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/you-gave-facebook-your...
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#43They require you to have a phone number. I don't get why this is a bad thing for a social media site. They aren't collecting your phone number to sell it. They are collecting it because it an easy way to lower bot, spam, and ban envision accounts. Plus it adds basic security to user accounts. I'm pretty sure every social media site requires a phone number.
They can sell it
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#44[flagged]
"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think if you don't think the criticism is worth responding to, you're better off ignoring it. If it violates the guidelines, people will usually downvote and flag it for you within a few hours. If they don't, it's usually because very few saw it anyway.
I think if you quote the guidelines at people, trolls will perceive that as blood in the water. Conversely if you give interesting responses to comments you think are worth addressing, people who are engaged with the subject matter will perceive it as an invitation to have a discussion with you. (There are two wolves inside of HN...)
You do you, but that's my two cents.
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#45Just a phone number!? Lucky you, Instagram wants me to take a selfie with some random code written on a piece of paper. I had this account for years, but I only used it to get away from "log in to see more posts" whenever I randomly stumbled upon some Instagram link, so yeah, I'm not doing that.
> Instagram wants me to take a selfie with some random code written on a piece of paper.
It's possible they may have wanted that too, eventually. The phone # request came at the beginning of the appeal process.
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#46>When I signed up, however, my Instagram account was immediately suspended, before I even had the chance to use it. If you haven't already made accounts in any major platform many years ago, getting in without giving a massive amount of personal information (up to having to send your very own personal documents, such as your passport) is not as simple as just signing up, and it gets worse if anti-fraud algorithms pic…
Yep. I tried to make a test account on Twitter/X to use the the API integration with, and dear lord it was a nightmare. Loads of captchas, the requirement to use a mobile number to sign up at all, and quite a few other issues I can't remember.
Forget about getting out of the walled garden, even getting in is painful if you're a late adopter or need extra accounts for whatever reason.
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#47[flagged]
"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You should take you own advice from a previous comment you made, and read the most charitable interpretation of the GPs comment: that he was offering constructive advice.
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#48They require you to have a phone number. I don't get why this is a bad thing for a social media site. They aren't collecting your phone number to sell it. They are collecting it because it an easy way to lower bot, spam, and ban envision accounts. Plus it adds basic security to user accounts. I'm pretty sure every social media site requires a phone number.
>They aren't collecting your phone number to sell it.
There's unfortunately quite a number of bad precedents that suggest this can be the case, regardless of the ToS.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/05/twitter-pays-150...
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You should take you own advice from a previous comment you made, and read the most charitable interpretation of the GPs comment: that he was offering constructive advice.
I didn't say the advice was bad, I just said that it violates the HN guidelines. Comments about web site formats detract from the discussion. "They're too common to be interesting."
My site has my contact info, so that would be a better place to provide suggestions.
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#50Overall interpersonal quality of life will be better if you boycott American media companies, wholesale.