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Spam and other malicious behaviour. It's time consuming for mods to block spammers.

Instagram also don't charge users and yet they verify identity.



Instagram may be verifying identity now (I didn't know... letting FB scan my id would be one of the last things I would want), but I'm pretty sure they reached a massive scale without such a measure.


Stripe's website shows users scanning their government ID documents and taking selfies.

Using that as a means to block spammers would be.... unusual.




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