There is no sound in written word. While I totally get what you mean (being a non native speaker), I don't care as much as I did. It's the same tone for me as

There is no sound in written word. While I totally get what you mean (being a non native speaker), I don't care as much as I did. It's the same tone for me as was used on Discord. There it's also not discord, but the server owners (as I learned a few comments down) Apart from that: yes, I somehow blame the "give us your phonenumber approach". It's a lazy solution and a couple of years back, before the "war on terror/drugs/childporn/whatever" we used to get sim cards without r egistration and a DNA test (the later is a slight exaggeration ;)) And of course big companies such as Amazon or Discord love data such as the phone number. It's a super data point to link profiles across a variety of services