Comment on Discord requiring you to add a phone number **after** the creation of your account
FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 3 days agoThis is or was part of their anti-spam/flooding protection.
That’s the official explanation. A phone number is a nice way to attach a real world identity to the data (which of course is sold to advertisers/data brokers etc).
kitnaht@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Again - which isn’t required.