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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.

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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 ?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Re:Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone by fragmede on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @11:46PM (#41316623)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/burner-second-phone-number/id5...
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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.
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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?

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