Submitted 4 weeks ago by SolarPunker@slrpnk.net to fediverse@lemmy.world
It appears to be an unauthorized provider.
Addy aliases are temporary email addresses (aliases) that forward messages to their primary email account. This can help protect a user’s real email address from spam, unwanted marketing, or potential data breaches.
It’s all about the instance. For the Lemmy instance I chose I had to write a few sentences. For mastodon I had to provide a picture of my SubGenius pastor card. I intentionally picked ones that had requirements.
Get a domain and link it so you have your own domain addy.io . It’s not very hard.
You can use the domain for other things too.
That defeats the purpose.
How does it defeat the purpose?
The domain have nothing that is traceable to you. What’s the issue?
It depends on the instance. I created an account on mastodon with guerillamail which would be even more suspicious for an average website than your alias email. A tip, if you do not mind using icloud email, you can even create one with some effort without giving real personal data and using apple hardware (Virtual machines ftw), you can take advantage of its free alias email addresses which would be accepted even on most strict websites.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
“Mastodon” is probably not doing that, a specific instance might be though?
SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Yeah good point, in my case it was mastodon.social