• nroth@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    How does being email-based instead of phone-number-based meaningfully help security? I would understand something like non-federated Matrix, where only approved users have accounts on your instance. Less phishing at the cost of convenience.

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      2 hours ago

      They have no clue what is safe or dangerous or reasonable or stupid. For a few decades now, the Internet has been “Neuland” to them, that is, unexplored country. These geriatric chucklefucks couldn’t be arsed to seriously and systematically explore it if you held a gun to their head.

      (I don’t advocate holding guns to their head, for the record. It wouldn’t solve the systematic issue underpinning their incompetence. It would also give them advance warning.)