Is signing up with email forced by devs? I would like to sign up for piedfed but I don't like to include my email for, well, anything psuedo-anonymouse like social networking. I haven't been able to find any instances that don't require email (my preferred is piefed.ca)
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rimu@piefed.social · 5 pts · 264d
It's not forced by devs, it is a setting that admins can turn on or off.
jeena@piefed.jeena.net · 5 pts · 264d
There is the possibility to just host yourself like I do.
PugJesus@piefed.social · 4 pts · 264d
Why not just get an alternate email account that you only use for pseudo-anonymous sites like this?
hddsx@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 264d
Because most email providers ask for a LOT of personal information nowadays, especially if you use a VPN
not_me@piefed.social · 2 pts · 264d
Blaze@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 264d
Don't lemmy.ca and Piefed.ca align on that requirement? @shadow@lemmy.ca ?
Shadow@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 264d
They do these days. Their lemmy.ca account might predate that.
Blaze@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 263d
Thank you!
hddsx@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 263d
For reference I signed up during the Reddit exodus
Shadow@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 263d
Yeah makes sense, we waffled on that requirement originally.
We don't restrict use of anonymous email things, but we require email to reduce the spammers