Are there any equivalents that don’t need a phone number?

I’m still not sure what those first two mean.

Hiding vote counts is a good idea imo however, having the info visible can influence people’s judgement of the comment and cause people to also vote based on the existing score rather than just the comment itself.

First time I’m hearing about this, can you give any links? Maybe we could use something similar in lemmy

This only makes sense if discord is a common entry point into the community which seems unlikely to me

Could you eli5 what’s bad about it?

City owned isps do exist! I don’t know if any have filtered the Internet like this but I doubt it, it might be against net neutrality regulations