Voice just asks for name, email, and two different selfie photos. That's it. It's actually quite nice in terns of onboarding.
But yeah, I agree. People (myself included) are creatures of habit and they will stay where the watering holes are that include all their friends, family, and co-wokers and such.
Onboarding been improved a lot since last HF, you can signup to Hive very easily with just an email. https://ecency.com/?referral=ecency
Well how do they prevent someone from just signing up with a bunch of different different names, emails, and selfie photos? How do they determine if the photos are of someone who has already joined? Are there people who approve new users?
I'm guessing this info is already available somewhere so if you have a link to something like that I'd be interested to read up on it.
My understanding is it uses some kind of 3D face recognition technology using multiple selfies (one zoomed in after the other) so you can't upload a photo, but have to take both photos in real time.