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Re:Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone by SoftMachine on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @04:10PM (#41313768)
Open to everyone, but you must have Google or Discord account. Has the definition of everyone changed?
Re:Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone by chipgap98 on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @06:00PM (#41314610)
Anyone can sign up for one of those accounts. I don't really see why that would make this misleading
Re:Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone by handfuloflight on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @06:02PM (#41314634)
Can everyone have a Google is Discord account?
Re:Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone by handfuloflight on Thursday August 22, 2024 @01:23AM (#41317089)
Can everyone have a Google or* Discord account?
Re:Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone by bhhaskin on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @07:05PM (#41315061)
If your site or service only has social logins then it's a hard no from me.
Re:Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone by cabbageicefruit on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @07:31PM (#41315216)
Open to everyone, but requires a computer. Has the definition of everyone changed?
Re:Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone by stemlord on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @08:37PM (#41315567)
Equating participating in walled garden social platforms to simply having a computer is bleak
Re:Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone by rajamaka on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @10:11PM (#41316103)
Can you explain the difference between creating an anonymous google account with fake information compared to an anonymous midjourney account with fake information?
Re:Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone by stonogo on Thursday August 22, 2024 @04:11AM (#41317928)
Creating fake accounts violates Google's terms of service.
Re:Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone by latexr on Thursday August 22, 2024 @06:32AM (#41318639)
Google accounts require a phone number. How do you reliably fake that internationally without risking your money on some shady service?
Re:Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone by bufferoverflow on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @11:09PM (#41316455)
Nonsense. Creating a throwaway account takes a couple of minutes.

What a strangely deranged view of the world some people have.

Re:Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone by rnd0 on Friday August 23, 2024 @05:26AM (#41327467)
And a phone number in the case of both google and discord.

It is deranged that requiring a phone to access a website is seen as a non-issue, I agree.

Re:Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone by cabbageicefruit on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @09:40PM (#41315898)
Pretending that someone can’t use your software because they don’t want to create a login through your providers is idiotic.
Re:Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone by stemlord on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @08:34PM (#41315560)
I truly thought the title meant they are no longer tied to discord. Excited me for a minute
Re:Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone by seoulmetro on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @10:24PM (#41316193)
Yep. "Web experience" made me think there was an actual website experience. There still isn't a web experience and it's still not open to everyone. lol
Re:Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone by geor9e on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @08:56PM (#41315671)
Touché. But it's certainly leagues more "everyone" today than it was yesterday. It used to require arcane knowledge of deep Discord server bot navigation. I gave up after 20 minutes and never figured it out. Today I tried it in seconds.

I have about 40+ google accounts for reasons, so I don't begin to understand the aversion some have to registering a burner google/discord/facebook/etc account under their hampster's name, but many of my closest friends are just like you so I respect it anyway, whatever principle it is.

Re:Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone by contrarian1234 on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @10:46PM (#41316338)
Where do you quickly get burner phone numbers for registration ?
Re:Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone by taude on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @11:48PM (#41316633)
why do you need a phone number for a google account?
Re:Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone by latexr on Thursday August 22, 2024 @06:38AM (#41318690)
Because Google asks for it to let you register.
Re:Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone by taude on Thursday August 22, 2024 @08:38AM (#41319603)
Really? Wow. I have like 20 gmail accounts. I guess I got them before they started requiring phone numbers.
Re:Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone by latexr on Thursday August 22, 2024 @08:56AM (#41319736)
Do you use all 20 regularly? Because if you don’t, there’s a chance that next time you try to login to one of them on the web they’ll ask you to add a phone number and not let you continue until you do. But if you have them setup in an email client, it should still work.
Re:Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone by fragmede on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @11:46PM (#41316623)
Re:Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone by latexr on Thursday August 22, 2024 @06:37AM (#41318685)
The reviews don’t inspire any confidence.
Re:Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone by latexr on Thursday August 22, 2024 @06:40AM (#41318717)
> I don't begin to understand the aversion some have to registering a burner google/discord/Facebook/etc

Maybe because several of those tend to ask for phone verification nowadays, and phone burner services tend to either not work or look so shady it looks like a major gamble to give them any payment information?