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Yes. Twitter and Discord do this as well, it's basically an industry standard at this point.

The server owner decides this and if you have a somewhat big server you want it enabled. I guess you could blame Discord for not having better spam prevention and toxicity filters but it's not an easy problem and I presume they catch a lot we don't see.

> The server owner decides this and if you have a somewhat big server you want it enabled.

I am not talking about servers requiring phone numbers, I am talking about Discord blocking your account entirely for no reason until you give them a phone number. Maybe you haven't experienced it yet, but I have.

The only times Discord has asked for my phone number (and I have many alts) is when a server specifically says that only people who have added a phone number to their account can join. This is off by default.

Nowadays if you want to create a discord account you have to fork over a non voip phone number.

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