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jaz 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@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.

12 Aug 2022 at 13:57 | Wall-to-wall | Open on toot.wales
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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?

12 Aug 2022 at 14:08 | Reply
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

12 Aug 2022 at 14:14 | Reply | Open on toot.wales
jaz 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@grishka @dansup

>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.

12 Aug 2022 at 14:17 | Reply | Open on toot.wales
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.

12 Aug 2022 at 14:46 | Reply
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