WaterBowlSlime comments on Xiaohongshu, China's answer to Instagram, hits no. 1 on the App Store as TikTok faces US shutdown

[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 2 years ago (5 children)

It's making me sign up with either a phone number or a Google account ):

And you need to attach a phone number to comment anything. Are there any issues with using one of those temporary fake phone number generators?

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml [S] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

ah I already had a wechat account so I signed in with that

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[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

That's not much better because you need either a Facebook account or a phone number (again) for that too ))):

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[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml [S] 4 points 2 years ago

yeah I think I signed up with my phone number originally

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[–] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It's just to make an account. It's not going to actually display your number. Just make a separate Google account and use that.

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[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago

The Google account seems unnecessary if you're attaching a number bc you could just sign up using only the number.

Anyway, I think I'm going to stick with the account I made using a dud gmail address and cope with being unable to post or comment anything

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