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I would sign up for lemmy but it requires an email
by EMCymatics 3y ago
I would sign up for lemmy but it requires an email
- InCityDreams 3y agoDid you manage to sign up for reddit without one?
- omgmajk 3y agoYes, this used to be a feature of Reddit, not sure if it still is.
- junon 3y agoIt used to be a feature of the entire internet, really. Email based signups weren't common in the infancy.
- johnnyanmac 3y agospam/bots grew out of control. You need to do something to curtail that, and email verification seems to be the most seemless solution. That said, I've had a burner email for as long as my personal email for this very reason. I even have 2 burner gmails. It's not exactly a huge invasive measure like a phone number (which I'd never give to a site that isn't trying to take payments. Hell, still haven't given Amazon my phone number).
- junon 3y agoI agree with you, just was an observation about how things changed.
- omgmajk 3y agoYeah, I remember. I was born in the eighties. In my opinion this should still be a feature of the internet, remembering your username and password should be enough for a lot of things. Protection against bots can be achieved in any number of ways and there already exists ways to use temporary emails so I don't really get why most places still require you to use an email. Edit: I mean, I do get it, I just don't like it.
- junon 3y agoI feel you. Things were nice and easy back then, before the greater population came and made everything terrible and spammed the daylights out of everything.
- uabstraction 3y agoYou used to be able to do this, but e-mail has been required for some time. Over on Lemmy, it is the instance operator's choice whether or not to require e-mail, but most instances currently do as a measure to mitigate bot signups.
- Sprocklem 3y agoAt least on old reddit, you can click "next" when it asks you for your email to skip that step.
- Seattle3503 3y agoMy experience has been your account will quickly get shadowbanned if you don't provide email.
- johnnyanmac 3y agoI've even used burner emails and have been shadowbanned. email-less account definitely wouldn't get traction.
- Seattle3503 3y agoThis was also my experience when I tried to register a custom domain. The only thing that worked for me was using a Gmail account that I had used with other, older, accounts.
- o_cho 3y agoYeah, unfortunately, it only works on old reddit. It's quite amusing to see how they treat old and new reddit as entirely different platforms.
- EMCymatics 3y agoYou can leave the field empty during signup.
- nickstinemates 3y agoYes I have many reddit accounts without an associated email.
- yomlica8 3y agoYes, it still is last I checked you just have to dodge a (mild) dark pattern they added suggesting otherwise.