Mainstream platforms have gotten to the point where they are completely unusable for anyone who cares about privacy.

Try making a YouTube, Github, Gitlab, or Gmail account. You are required to give a phone number.

Gitlab even required that I provide a credit card.

I find this very disturbing. The open source community is cutting off it's talent pool by using Github or Gitlab.

I don't think people realize just how significant of a loss this is.

Congratulations Google. You stopped the spammers. But you also made it near impossible for many of the world's best developers to contribute their talents.

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