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[โ€“] danhab99@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never said it was a good solution. There is no way to trust any validation that a user on the Internet is a person. But this way is cheap easy and most people aren't gonna go through the effort of masking their identities.

Also one discrepancy in an audit of a phone number trusted user base sticks out enough for cops to make some progress.

[โ€“] 7heo@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)