Want to sign up for farcaster, but it never works

I have been trying to sign up for farcaster for yrs but always have issues. My most recent attempt:

can't sign up with X acct despite being verified – "Twitter account not eligible for free signup"

can't pay for an account – "Payments are not available at this time"

How do I get onto farcaster? They have no discord/telegram/any way to communicate with the team (they wont see comments on X)