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They lock your account until you give them a valid phone number, it's probably nothing you did just they use 'dark patterns' to get your data. Everyone's probably better using Mastodon or something.

Utter amateur level, the whole 'give us more of your information because we fucked up' puts it in a different class altogether.

They are likely using some fuzzy logic to detect people evading bans by creating multiple accounts. Could be some combination of IP address, OS, browser fingerprinting, etc.

This approach inevitably results in some amount of false positives, but nobody cares since the users aren't the paying customers.

Google did this to me when I was signing up for a GSuite account. Decided I wouldn't risk my business with them then.

They want your phone number. It's a dark pattern to make you communicate your personal information.

Facebook does the same thing. I had a secondary IG account created in 2013, which worked fine until late 2021, when it refused me access without submitting a phone #. It was a burner account so it didn't matter, but still, very irritating.

I think it means they want you to add your phone number to your account.