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Let's start with one account between all servers.

And one censoring authority.

Nope, not a good idea.

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> Let's start with one account between all servers.

Go ahead and create 1 account per 1 server, nothing prevents you.

I've actually been doing it for some time - school (1 server) & private discord account (like 10 servers).

>And one censoring authority.

Sure, that's valid concern, I respect it.

For me it's a trade off.

Actually, if a previous account happened to have a phone number attached, and you're asked for one again when making a second account, then provide the same number, Discord will automatically ban both accounts with no way to appeal.

Which happened to me because I apparently had an old account I had forgotten about. So now I need a new phone number if I want to use Discord.

> Actually, if a previous account happened to have a phone number attached, and you're asked for one again when making a second account, then provide the same number, Discord will automatically ban both accounts with no way to appeal.

You left out that it just bans you on any servers that you're already banned on.

It doesn't deactivate/suspend your entire discord account for trying to reuse a phone number for servers that require verification.

Nope, it irrevocably banned both accounts from even being able to sign in.

I've heard of that, but I think the rule changed, Discord even includes an account switcher now.

Teenage style gossip mills on discord rumours is a great way to have a smashing chat experience

>Go ahead and create 1 account per 1 server, nothing prevents you.

Doesn't having to give up a phone number for each account (and you can't use the same number on different accounts) make it difficult? (unless you haven't had to, maybe my browser is suspicious, but it's just regular old Chromium). Would like to do this so that I can separate IRL/weak pseudonym (from random people in servers, obviously you can't be truly anonymous on Discord)

I think that depends largely - if not entirely - on the particular server? I'm on 14 servers and haven't given Discord my phone number - but there's one server I refused to join because my phone number would have been required, which is a hard nope from me.

> Go ahead and create 1 account per 1 server, nothing prevents you.

You think? I still have to use the official client to log on to all of them so they can just ban all if their AI thinks I'm a communist pedophile terrorist.

I have two Discord accounts. The desktop app supports this and lets you log into multiple accounts at once. So I doubt it's against TOS.

But if one does something that breaks ToS then both will be banned, no?

Yes, I think, because I used to run 2 accounts for a few years.

>I still have to use the official client to log on to all of them so they can just ban all if their AI thinks I'm a communist pedophile terrorist.

so... what? Your country can cause you a lot of harm too if they think you're pedophile terrorist.

That's edge case, not something that happens to 99.99% of the users.

A lot of countries tend to have some sort of due process, as opposed to a chat server's "AI".

I don't know where you live but in my country the best you can get is a tough bureaucracy process that most people can't afford that hardly can be called "due process"

I have so many discord accounts because they won't let you change your avatar based on the server.

Yeah there is a way to register accounts without phone number verification. I did it four times. The trick is that they block you if you do anything suspicious and any account created under this 'suspicious' state demands phone verification. I don't know how they identify you, but you must succeed with your first try. So your best bet is to find an email provider that is trusted by discord that does not need a phone number.

I think they added it pretty recently, but you can change your whole profile per server now if you have nitro

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409388345495-...

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