they send you a code via email and you put it in the site, thus verifying that you actually own the address you told them

re: "security", this lets them use email as a way to reset your account if password is lost

whether this is a net positive to "security" is unclear

(really, almost everyone using the phrase "trust and safety" unironically is of this bent

it takes that kind of person to use "trust and safety" for a program defined entirely around silencing people)

it's not like purely social solutions tend to completely solve social problems either

I mean, locks are obviously, at least, a significantly useful amelioration of the social problem of theft

I feel like if this is the standard then there is no such thing as a "solution to a social problem"

I think you can use the ontological argument to prove that the worst conceivable thing is Nega-God