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.
https://simplelogin.io is a very nice service, now brought by proton as well, so i’m essentially trusting the same company with my emails and email aliases.
Aliases will forward email to your actual inbox with optional PGP (in case ur using something like gmail, though u’d need to pair it with an email client which supports PGP to decrypt), and want to prevent google reading emails), and hides your real email from services.