Most of the Lemmy instances seem to require an email to sign up. That’s fine, except most of the places you would go to sign up for email want you to… already have an email. And often a phone number. And almost always a first name, last name, and birthday.
I promise not to do bad stuff, but I don’t want that sort of information able to be publicly associated with my accounts where I write stuff, when everyone inevitably loses their databases to hackers. Pseudonymity is good, actually; on the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog, etc.
Is anyone doing normal webmail registration anymore? Set username and password, receive email for free? I don’t even need to send anything to sign up for accounts elsewhere.
Email is currently optional on our instance: https://reddthat.com
Signup while we leave it optional for the time being. You of course can’t do a password reset without an email. So don’t forget it!
don’t know where you’re from, but I saw this domain earlier and it reminded me of when I lived in southern US and people would always say “heard that!”