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Detecting throwaway email addresses during registration
(media.piefed.social)
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.
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.
Aliases are different and not flagged by this feature. It just looks at domain names.
Multiple big Lemmy instances have been using the exact same blocklist for a long time (although it's not a core feature, they've patched it in somehow). I got the idea by lurking in the Lemmy matrix rooms and seeing their discussion.
How are they meaningfully different? I just checked the list you posted above and several of the alias domains I use are on that list.
Did you think about it before implementing it?
Ah I see we are using the word alias in a different way. I was using 'Alias' as technical term with a very specific meaning. Never mind.
@Ulrich @rimu
Ok, but that's not the only use case for it. It's also used by spammers and abusers to make everyone else's lives worse and it's admins who have to bear the brunt of that.
So I think it's fair to give them the option to weigh the costs and benefits of allowing it and then either do or not do something about it.
This is just lazy discrimination and a deep disrespect for the privacy of your users. If you can't be bothered to actually admin a community properly then don't create a community.
Go create your own then? It's a free service, you're not actually owed anything.
Don't want to.
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.
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.
Yes I am. Everyone is owed their privacy.
I'd rather them quit if they can't be bothered to moderate the site.
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.
And as I said, I don't want to. Nor would it solve the problem.
I know. You just want to be a self righteous prick online blaming others who contribute when you don't.
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?
Being concerned for the privacy of people as a whole makes me a prick?
I don't know why you assume that I don't contribute?
Why would it? Is it going to wipe those sites off the internet? No? That's why. Those sites will still be there, discriminating against users who just want privacy on the internet. That's like saying Lemmy solves the problems that Reddit creates or Mastodon solves the problems of Xitter. Those problems still exist because people continue to choose to participate in those communities, against their own interests.