Yep, this is a deal breaker for many, if not most. I don't want to post. I don't want an account. I have no interest in giving them my phone number or email any more than I would give it to Twitter or Facebook. If I have to sign up for an account just to see a post, no thanks. @john needs to understand that people will be MORE likely to sign up to comment on things they look around the site and see the content.
On the flip side, people who want to use social media to reach their audience are not going to waste their time on a platform with only a few million users capable of seeing their posts. This policy limits them to remaining a small time platform.
Laura Loomer was banned from every social media for calling out islamist antisemitism
She has almost 350,000 followers on parler