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Open to everyone, but you must have Google or Discord account. Has the definition of everyone changed?


I truly thought the title meant they are no longer tied to discord. Excited me for a minute


Yep. "Web experience" made me think there was an actual website experience. There still isn't a web experience and it's still not open to everyone. lol


Open to everyone, but requires a computer. Has the definition of everyone changed?


Equating participating in walled garden social platforms to simply having a computer is bleak


Can you explain the difference between creating an anonymous google account with fake information compared to an anonymous midjourney account with fake information?


Google accounts require a phone number. How do you reliably fake that internationally without risking your money on some shady service?


Creating fake accounts violates Google's terms of service.


Nonsense. Creating a throwaway account takes a couple of minutes.

What a strangely deranged view of the world some people have.


And a phone number in the case of both google and discord.

It is deranged that requiring a phone to access a website is seen as a non-issue, I agree.


Pretending that someone can’t use your software because they don’t want to create a login through your providers is idiotic.


Anyone can sign up for one of those accounts. I don't really see why that would make this misleading


Touché. But it's certainly leagues more "everyone" today than it was yesterday. It used to require arcane knowledge of deep Discord server bot navigation. I gave up after 20 minutes and never figured it out. Today I tried it in seconds.

I have about 40+ google accounts for reasons, so I don't begin to understand the aversion some have to registering a burner google/discord/facebook/etc account under their hampster's name, but many of my closest friends are just like you so I respect it anyway, whatever principle it is.


> I don't begin to understand the aversion some have to registering a burner google/discord/Facebook/etc

Maybe because several of those tend to ask for phone verification nowadays, and phone burner services tend to either not work or look so shady it looks like a major gamble to give them any payment information?


Where do you quickly get burner phone numbers for registration ?



The reviews don’t inspire any confidence.


why do you need a phone number for a google account?


Because Google asks for it to let you register.


Really? Wow. I have like 20 gmail accounts. I guess I got them before they started requiring phone numbers.


Do you use all 20 regularly? Because if you don’t, there’s a chance that next time you try to login to one of them on the web they’ll ask you to add a phone number and not let you continue until you do. But if you have them setup in an email client, it should still work.


Can everyone have a Google is Discord account?


Can everyone have a Google or* Discord account?


If your site or service only has social logins then it's a hard no from me.




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