there used to be a time where creating an email didn't require an already-existing email or phone number. Just username and password and that's it

>>105853227 (OP)
Either the email providers do something drastic againdt people using their email service to create mass amounts of bots or other services will start blocking this provider, worsening the experience for normal users.

>>105853227 (OP)
the old internet was an incredibly privileged bubble. that ship has sailed already. get over it.

>>105853227 (OP)
funny picture

>>105853227 (OP)

>>105853529
thinking about other men makes you hard?

>>105853227 (OP)
Its our fault anon
Too much shitposting sockpuppeting and raiding and now jewgle wants a phone number to verify your government name

>>105853227 (OP)
cock.li still exists by the way which has the old internet fundamentals of not needing to jump through hoops

I hate using email as an authentication method.
Thankfully, protonmail gives unlimited receive-only aliases for 15 bucks a month.

>>105853649
Oh man I love having an email that works on a total of 3 websites and goes offline every other day

You can use existing technology and infrastructure to build an alternative email network parallel to the Google/Microsoft/etc walled garden hosted on a fediverse of VPS instances and home servers. NEETs and trannies would probably flock to it.

>>105853227 (OP)
proton also still doesn't require it
>>105853649
and this

>>105853227 (OP)
brother there was a time when you could walk to the next town and just be an entirely new person

>>105853227 (OP)
I'm fucked if I ever lose my email account I guess. I already lost one after 15 years, university decided to reneg on their personal email for life promise so I got to figure out how to archive that and switch all of my important accounts.

>>105853227 (OP)
can somebody r*dpill me on this cat?

>>105853227 (OP)
yeah i miss it too can try setting up your own domain and deal with uptime and jewgle marking your domain as spam

>>105853649
I am locked out of one of my discord accounts because discord support doesn't take mail from them.

>>105853649
imagine using a honeypot

fox beans...

>>105854425
beaner fox sticking her beans out!

>>105853227 (OP)
unironically if my gmail ever gets compromised and i have to ditch it, i dont know what i'll do
need an email to get a number, need a number to get an email, etc. how are young people getting emails? I'd think maybe this is why discord got popular but you need an email for that, and for that you need a number, and for that you need an email, which itself needs a number.

>>105853529
same

>>105854092
what people forget about the phrase "Global Village" is that when McLuhan coined that phrase, he meant it as a bad thing.

>>105853227 (OP)
There used to be a time when 4chan had no captcha.

>>105855480
Only a problem because of bots and spammers.
Truly, the members of any given community are the first to ruin it. Tech would be so much fun if not for techbros.

>>105855561
love fox

>>105853227 (OP)
The world needs to close off India and Nigeria. China did the right thing and contained their population. Other mass countries should do the same.

Brownoid shenanigans caused this.