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Re:Twitter API hacked, user database being sold online by Semaphor on Sunday December 25, 2022 @08:54AM (#34127230)
Twitch requires your phone number to a) become verified (because apparently paying them every month for 5 years is not a verification) and even dumber, b) to enable TOTP.

And people on the Twitch subreddit insult you for even questioning this issue, even after they had a data leak. And yes, that's a majority opinion over there.

It's sad.

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Re:Twitter API hacked, user database being sold online by nubinetwork on Sunday December 25, 2022 @09:54AM (#34127709)
Both twitch and YouTube's subreddits aren't moderated by staff, but by random tryhards. If they don't like you, you're banned. Reminds me of Wikipedia.
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Re:Twitter API hacked, user database being sold online by philpem on Sunday December 25, 2022 @09:56AM (#34127725)
Reminds me of furries, and a lot of other fandoms actually.

A: "Hey I had a problem at the con this weekend"

B: "How dare you talk about that, that's DRAMA! Take your DRAMA elsewhere, LLAMA. I'll have you know the guy who runs ConWeekend is my best friend! You're Banned for life! Long live ConWeekend! And here's that Japanese BANNED meme video to play you out! HAHA I SAVED THE FANDOM!"

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Re:Twitter API hacked, user database being sold online by Semaphor on Sunday December 25, 2022 @03:59PM (#34131174)
Tbf, that's what I expect, most subs are community-run. But even if not, that'd be telling me a lot about the community.
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Re:Twitter API hacked, user database being sold online by philpem on Sunday December 25, 2022 @09:55AM (#34127711)
Some communities (fandom is probably a better word) are more like cults of personality than actual communities.

Given the fannish nature of Twitch and its audience in general, this level of almost religious fanboying and "how dare you question the Gods" mentality is very familiar (my teens and 20s were spent in fandoms - first anime, then comics, then furry).

I've seen this in every single one of them to some extent, but especially furry and Twitch. It's sad, because -- as they, sunlight is the best disinfectant -- and all this does is block the sunlight and discourage people from talking about issues.

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