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Where are people getting their emails? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by planish@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] EDRBd97kWbT2KzK@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

https://simplelogin.io/ allows you to create infinite mail aliases. I personally use a different alias for every service I use.

[–] maltfield@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

See this list of "Privacy-Conscious Email Services"

https://prxbx.com/email/

[–] mailum@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

https://mailum.com just a username and password to get an email

[–] b9chomps@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

They have a free tier with 10 aliases.

[–] seirim@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I didn’t know about simplelogin.io, will be checking this out, thank you!

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] chovy@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

for an emergency i use tuta.io