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What is your email used for when signing up to Lemmy? (lemmy.world)
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What is your email used for when signing up to Lemmy? Is it just for password reset?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Password reset and notifications.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

We use it as an (imperfect) speed bump for spammers. Also for password resets. That's about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I assume it can be seen by admins?

I trust my admins, but I still used a forwarding service because there's always a risk of an attack exposing data. Unless there's some other security there I don't know about

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes us instance admin can pull the email address form local users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Can you pull for foreign users? Curious what other federated instances can see