I only plan to use it for messaging in a couple of sports teams and event invitations.

I’m willing to take a lot of measures as long as they don’t get the account blocked - no phone app, dedicated virtual machine+VPN to isolate from other internet activity, purchased fake phone number in signup, adding fake interests and life details. However, I won’t provide any real ID/photos, are these needed for signup?

  • AnEye@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    3·
    11 hours ago

    Just out of interest: what’s on FB messenger

    It’s the first line of the post ;)

    • FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websiteEnglish
      1·
      10 hours ago

      Touché. If I were in your place I would still try and find another forum, even if you ended up giving all your data to Discord or something like that.

      One of the reasons is adversarial policies. They will sniff out you’re using a VPN and they will throw stuff at you. Oh, weird activity from your account. Oh, change your password. Oh, we need to get a proper ID from you. Unless you’re getting $$$ betting info, it just doesn’t seem worth the effort.