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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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[–] AwesomeLowlander 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Go create your own then? It's a free service, you're not actually owed anything.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Go create your own then?

Don't want to.

you're not actually owed anything.

People in general are owed their privacy and anyone who admins a website owes that to them, but especially fediverse projects that are supposed to be an alternative to surveillance capitalism.

[–] AwesomeLowlander 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You're not owed anything when you're using a free service offered by somebody else, at their personal expense and effort. Nobody's funding this shit, nobody's paying for this shit. Definitely not you. You're free to make suggestions, you're not free to demand stuff. Overly demanding and obnoxious users like you are why FOSS devs tend to suffer burnout and quit.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Yes I am. Everyone is owed their privacy.

I'd rather them quit if they can't be bothered to moderate the site.

[–] AwesomeLowlander 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You can rather whatever you want. As I said, if you believe in it so much, put your money where your mouth is and host something better for the rest of us.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

And as I said, I don't want to. Nor would it solve the problem.

[–] AwesomeLowlander 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

And as I said, I don't want to

I know. You just want to be a self righteous prick online blaming others who contribute when you don't.

Nor would it solve the problem.

Why wouldn't it? If this is as important an issue as you say it is, surely providing an alternative that meets it would allow others to use the better alternative?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 hours ago

You just want to be a self righteous prick

Being concerned for the privacy of people as a whole makes me a prick?

blaming others who contribute when you don't.

I don't know why you assume that I don't contribute?

Why wouldn't it?

Why would it? Is it going to wipe those sites off the internet? No? That's why.