this post was submitted on 17 May 2025
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Spammers, trolls, and ban evaders often use temporary email addresses. PieFed now checks a list of known temporary email providers and displays a warning icon next to registrations that use such services.

If registration mode is set to "Open" (no approval needed) then the site admin(s) receive a notification instead.

A throwaway email address isn't always a bad thing but it's one factor that admins might want to take into account.

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 11 months ago

I have to say that's extremely unfortunate that you would add such a feature. We use aliases to maintain our privacy and this is come corpo surveillance shit. Not cool.

[–] RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

Hello! Representing a real human with a throwaway registration 👍

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 1 points 11 months ago

Also a real human with a throwaway registration address!

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't really understand the hostility to this. Do users understand why emails are part of account registration in the first place instead of letting you sign up without an email?

[–] modeler@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

Because people forget passwords and demand a password reset mechanism. Also a place to send terms and conditions and changes to those.