This may be true of many corporate platforms, but this article describes what was done with a Mastodon instance. Mastodon instances are generally commercial/adv

This may be true of many corporate platforms, but this article describes what was done with a Mastodon instance. Mastodon instances are generally commercial/advertising free. This and my social media instances are not trying to harvest any data or identify people. The main intent of the email verification is to allow password sets and resets, but it provides some small impediment for spammers. Little is foolproof to stopping spammers, but we can mitigate.