Now that a lot of the commotion has subsided I’m just curious to know how y’all are finding the Lemmy experience in general and whether you use it regularly like you did reddit?
Now that a lot of the commotion has subsided I’m just curious to know how y’all are finding the Lemmy experience in general and whether you use it regularly like you did reddit?
I own a domain, for example xyz.com, which means I can create whatever email I want, like lemmy@xyz.com.
The mail server I set up forwards all emails to one inbox. Which means I still get an email if you send it to reddit@xyz.com or whatever@xyz.com and so on, you get the idea.
So when I sign up for an account I don’t use a general email (except for banking stuff, taxes, etc.). If I sign up for Facebook (good riddance) I’d use facebook@xyz.com. That way I also know when I suddenly get a lot of spam who lost my email or sold it off :)
had a bank spend an hour making phone calls before letting me use bankname@mydomain.com one time, they ended up letting me use it in the end but acted like i was hacking the entire bank it was really amusing.
This scheme has been invaluable for spending decades on the internet. When a company sells your email off you instantly know who sold it and blocking that address on your end fixes the issue immediately.
Anyone who wants to try a lightweight version of this google supports +tokens in the name portion of your email address. So if you are steve@gmail.com and you sign up at nike.com enter the address as steve+nike@gmail.com (if their system lets you, many do not). then if you get spam at steve+nike@gmail.com that isn’t from nike you know it was them who sold your address.
makes filtering easier too like if you fish sign up as steve+fishing at all your fishing sites and you can catch them all with one fiter and don’t have to add each domain individually to have them labeled properly.
Oh nice. I wasn’t thinking along the lines of self hosted email. Thanks for the insight.
Maybe I’ll try to set up something similar in the future.
In my case it’s self-hosted, but maybe there are email providers where you can use your own domain that enable the same feature (it’s called wildcard usually).