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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • 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.


  • 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.


  • 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






  • We don’t have food scarcity; we have capitalism and carnism.

    (ok, there’s a few countries where there is legitimate food scarcity within their borders. But borders are fictional social constructs, and they could be fed if it wasn’t for capitalism)

    And if we ever did encounter a situation where the calories produced globally is less than the colories needed globally (caused by the “green” revolution, monocultures, factory farming, etc), then the solution is easy: stop diverting human food to factory farms and go back to polyculutres (eg 3 sisters) instead of horribly inefficient petro-dependent agriculture.