Gregory's ServerSMS costs money per message and this alone means it's a non-starter. Besides, phone numbers have other issues:
- The security, and the continued existence, of your phone number is wholly dependent on your carrier. You can't take it into your own hands.
- Phone numbers are tied to countries. This is a problem for people who travel.
- You can't self-host a phone number.
- In many countries around the world, a government-issued ID is required to buy a sim card, which means no anonymity whatsoever.
|
Top-level
Григорий Клюшников
6 comments
Григорий Клюшников
Jaz, and if only some servers implement SMS authentication, how that would help curb spam? How would that phone number confirmation federate, anyway? Are we going to trust a central authority of some sort? 
jaz 🏴
@grishka this is not about spam content being federated, it's about spam registrations. it's about curbing the actual registrations on some servers that want to curb registrations. this is not about sms, it's about options that include sms, captcha, others
jaz 🏴
>How would that phone number confirmation federate, anyway? There is no need for it to do so. This is about stopping spammers gaining access to the service, a single server can choose to implement an additional step for registration to help slow down unwanted spam registrations. Nothing needs to be federated, nothing needs to be kept on file. This is only about registration.
Григорий Клюшников
Jaz, okay. I assumed it was about spamming other people with unwanted content. Then... whatever, I guess? It's a choice each server admin makes independently. I've already seen Mastodon servers with captchas. 
Ricardo
Your post made think & remember of this.. https://invisv.com/pgpp/ |
@grishka @dansup all th eabove is true, however, if it were -optional- users could choose to register on a server that does not have this as a requirement. There are thousands of servers,most of which may not need or want these options. That doesn't mean no-one wants these options.