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I do wish there was a way to just transfer ids better between systems. I don’t really want to b have users create an account every time but no good way to prevent spam. Maybe h-capcha but even that is cheap to spam.

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As much as it pains me to mention it here, as I wholeheartedly do not support it for a number of important reasons, something like Metamask and an identity on a blockchain could work for this.

The more obvious solution is OAuth (or OpenID Connect), and there are plenty of providers that aren't Apple, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, or GitHub.

Yeah I don’t really care about I’d but the problem is spam. Maybe phone text authentication is an alternative, idk how much that costs to implement though.

About 5c per msg, a bit lower for some countries, a bit higher for others.

Is there no service out there where you can just buy a number and use it for text validation

You could build one yourself by grabbing some hardware that includes a modem and grabbing a sim card from a local provider with "unlimited" text messages.

Might violate ToS though

Perhaps Mastodon could be a solution?

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