Context: An external contributor is taking it upon himself to implement ActivityPub and possibly ForgeFed in Gitlab after Gitlab ignored the issue for more than 7 years
Not true, I just tried to sign up:
Appears to be optional, if you don’t want to use a phone number.
Yeah, been using GitLab semi-professionally for a while and have accounts on multiple instances, it never asked me to have a credit card on file, and I just don’t put in a phone number. Saying that it requires it is sensationalism.
It requires it in countries other than the US
I’m Canadian
I guess Canada also doesn’t need credit cards. But as you can see from this comment, there are countries in which credit cards are required: https://lemmy.one/comment/3041845
From what I remember, they require a credit card info for people outside of US. Here’s my sign up screen with Netherlands VPN:
