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PieFed help

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SIgn up without email (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 months ago by hddsx@lemmy.ca to c/piefed_help@piefed.social
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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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[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 5 points 2 months ago

There is the possibility to just host yourself like I do.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago

It's not forced by devs, it is a setting that admins can turn on or off.

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why not just get an alternate email account that you only use for pseudo-anonymous sites like this?

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

Because most email providers ask for a LOT of personal information nowadays, especially if you use a VPN

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't lemmy.ca and Piefed.ca align on that requirement? @shadow@lemmy.ca ?

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They do these days. Their lemmy.ca account might predate that.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you!

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For reference I signed up during the Reddit exodus

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

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