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But it does. Discord tells other people what mutual communities you are in together, which has personally been a source of discomfort when I don't want one region of my life to cross over into another, but some curious and chatty person brings it up in a public chat to talk about.

I'd like pseudotrue pseudonymity please.

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Then make separate accounts?

I mean, this sort reads to me like the software development "It's not too hard, all you have to do is..." morass that I'm sure we've both encountered at one point or another.

Then comes account switching, which you manually have to do as it's not natively supported by any of the clients. This is especially a pain.

What I'm looking for as a user is a way to optionally obscure what my base profile name is, since the server name is what people interact with anyways, and to not list mutual servers by default in the profile (or at least, be able to turn it off).

It's not even really for a nefarious purpose, I just like having nice and clean compartments for different areas of interaction. It's predictable and keeps the world a lot smaller in a nice an structured kind of manner.

Account switching is natively supported by Discord for a while now. On all platforms. Unless you're using a third party app in which case, time to switch!

I feel you're overthinking the problem. Discord encourages multiple accounts, make them and separate your identities. Bonus: you don't have to fiddle around with keeping servers in certain folders to keep track of which identity you're using where.

Well if that is the case, then I was entirely mistaken and I apologize! This would certainly be a thing worth celebrating. Thank you for letting me, I'll take a closer look at this.

Account switching is supported in some of the official clients, but not all. Also, multiple accounts means multiple verified phone numbers. You can’t reuse the same phone number between accounts, unless you want to verify it every single time you switch accounts. And they don’t allow google voice or voip numbers. They clearly don’t want you using multiple accounts.

Account switching is natively supported yes, but if you join a big discord server with an account that isn't verified with a phone it will eventually be locked.

I'm not sure how many people have multiple phone numbers...

I had to use some shady weird sms service to verify my other account, I tried legit voip services but those were all blocked.

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