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.
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https://mailum.com just a username and password to get an email
It does not answer your question, but my mail provider (mailbox.org) has an option to generate temporary addresses that are viable for 30 days.
Also a mailbox.org user but I use an alias address for my social media accounts. Also never seen the option to generate temporary addresses. Could you tell me where to find it? might be useful for other things.
This article (in german) shows where it is in the account settings menu.
They documented it here:
https://mailbox.org/en/post/more-privacy-with-anonymous-disposable-e-mail-addresses
I think protonmail might allow you to make a mail account without anything.
I looked at them, and I think they would work, but also having multiple email addresses is touted as a feature of their premium plans, and I may or may not already use them. So if I want to be a fresh person I have to sort of cheat them, and they might not like it.
You can have multiple emails with them, you simply can’t be signed in to more than one at a time without their premium plan. Think like Google with it’s account swither. Multiple accounts can be logged in and you can hot-swap between them without having to re-login every time. That’s the premium feature for Proton mail.
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See this list of “Privacy-Conscious Email Services”
That’s a great resource thank you
Tutanota is pretty good.
Not a single Lemmy server requires mail afaik. It’s always optional I think!
Anyways, I always use one of the 10minutemail websites for stuff like this.
I was looking into opening an account at aiparadise.moe, but https://aiparadise.moe/signup lists email as a required field. And if @admin@aiparadise.moe is hand-reviewing applications, an obvious circumvention of the required field might not be appreciated or approved.
Happy to see your interest in aiparadise.moe! Personally I use proton mail for all my email account (https://proton.me). Can have your first and last name as your username or whatever you want, they also don’t require having an email already (only if you want password recovery) hope that helps!
I might give them a try. I already tried to do @planish@aiparadise.moe with
planish@sh.itjust.worksas an “email”, and that did not work even a little bit. So now I guess I need a new name over there unless you want to use your admin powers to clean up my bad life choices.Should be able to reapply with your desired username with a proper email, nothing should be reserved on our end for it anymore. Let me know if it gives you any trouble though!
Also you could post to their server with this account and ask them for an account
That’s a good point. My turbo-nerd values beep angrily when I find something I want can only be gotten by asking a real human nicely, and being likable enough to be accepted, and not, say, via a well-documented freely available API call. But sometimes that’s life.
Oh you’re right. Also my suggestion with a 10minute mail wouldn’t work either since it would probably take longer to approve. There are other burner email services though where you can have an email for a longer time.
I think the admin will understand if you explain the reason for the email address.
for an emergency i use tuta.io
On Lemmy.world I was able to signup without an email :)
https://simplelogin.io/ allows you to create infinite mail aliases. I personally use a different alias for every service I use.
So does duckduckgo!
I use simplelogin for almost all accounts I create. You create an alias address and all emails arriving will be forwarded to an email address you specify. If the address gets spam mails or you don’t need it for any reason, you deactivate or even delete it. Your true address stays clean. The only requirement is to trust simplelogin with your real email address.
I didn’t know about simplelogin.io, will be checking this out, thank you!
Guerilla mail
My instance never required an email. Try tempmail.
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!”
No one here uses duck.com email addresses?
