Otome-chan

what happens if you don’t have a phone number? you’re just prevented from having a bank account?

that’s good to know. I’ll just switch everything over to google authenticator then.

phone numbers are typically tied to your name/identity, and phone companies can locate you using their towers and such. Giving a company your phone number is identical to giving a company your full legal name and address.

there’s quite a lot of services that want phone for verification/2fa/whatever. whenever I run into them I usually just refuse to use the service altogether.

websites explicitly said to get one or the other so I did.

do all authenticators work for all services?

I like the app setup rather than shoving everything into a browser. But I’m not a fan of this 2fa stuff. I get the point is security, but let me decide which app/method to use, and whether I want to use it at all. Otherwise it’s just annoying.

they want your phone number so they can track you.

No offense to companies but I’m honestly sick of companies forcing 2fa. Every single one seems to have a different shitty way of doing it. Like why on earth do I need two different authenticator apps on my phone (authy&google authenticator)? Some do sms/phone number, but then yell at you and prevent you from doing 2fa if you have a “bad phone number”. This happened on discord where I’m locked out of certain servers because I can’t do phone verification, and I can’t do it because discord doesn’t like my phone number. Twitter was the same way for a long while (couldn’t do 2fa/phone verification due to them not liking my number).

From the article it sounds like they’re doing authenticator app or sms. I’m guessing sms won’t work for me, so app it is. I decided to dig to see which authenticator app they use and they list: 1password, authy, lastpass, and microsoft… no google?

Honestly, even email requirements for accounts is annoying because you know it just ends up spamming you. is the future where we’re gonna have to have 30 different authenticator apps on our phone?

and how you’d like it to respond to your questions.

Isn’t it still censored though? After a while it started refusing to do just this.

oh thank you so much that’s actually really helpful. 😄

I think it’s remarkably silly to hide. like why not be open about who you block/don’t block? unless you’re ashamed of your actions?

I have no idea how to type emojis on my windows laptop lol. so whenever I use them I gotta copy+paste. On discord they have shortcodes for them :emojiname: and on twitter there’s an emoji picker. no idea how to do it elsewhere…

based kbin

tfw based kbin federates with everyone 😎

kbin is still federated with everyone lol. and afaik sh.itjust.works hasn’t defederated exploding-heads.

“okay how about this, you’re always on your mac, tell me your mac’s address”

“we as an instance” you’re on kbin. has kbin defederated? I just woke up so maybe I missed something this morning but… this is the sh.itjust.works community lol.

I’m making the point that what someone sees as "harmful "or “misinformation” varies from person to person due to differing beliefs. And that to defederate over it is to shut down conversation, and declare a single position and prevent anyone else from speaking or discussing it.

It spun into a trans debate and I really don’t care to have one @.@

Yeah. and these sorts of transgender/lgbtqia communities like on beehaw pretty much encourage that.