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.
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You say it’s 50/50 based on your own experience/anecdotal evidence. Admins will probably be able to make that determination with a much greater deal of accuracy based on what they see happening on their instance. So it makes sense to leave the choice to them/enable them to make that choice, right?
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Sure
Throwaway emails seem kind of necessary on small, underdeveloped, easily hacked websites.
We’ll see. If it turns out to be useless noise, I’ll remove it from the signal.
I think it’s good that it’s a simple flag and not an outright block.
It’s just a way for admins to see “maybe take a closer look at this registration.”
I’m sure there are a lot of legitimate users that use these types of emails, though.
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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.
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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.
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.
Aliases are different and not flagged by this feature.
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.
I got the idea by lurking in the Lemmy matrix rooms and seeing their discussion.
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.
Also a real human with a throwaway registration address!
Same!
Seems like an overreach. Most spam I see is from gmail.com not alias services.
