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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Bad actors can buy one.

What does it cost to buy hundreds? It's a great deterrent to bad actors creating many accounts.

I really, really, really dislike using my phone number to verify. Like so much so it kept me off signal until about 6 months ago.

I get it. I don't like it, but I get the compromise until they can develop a better mechanism

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

You could run a network like signal, and either charge a small amount of money per message, or a larger amount of money to register with the network.

Hell you could do the WhatsApp model, charge a dollar for new users, the pay for the registration verification. The same thing.

You just need some mechanism to add friction for mass spamming, be that money time or complexity.