Now that a lot of the commotion has subsided I’m just curious to know how y’all are finding the Lemmy experience in general and whether you use it regularly like you did reddit?

  • Vlyn@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    I own a domain, for example xyz.com, which means I can create whatever email I want, like lemmy@xyz.com.

    The mail server I set up forwards all emails to one inbox. Which means I still get an email if you send it to reddit@xyz.com or whatever@xyz.com and so on, you get the idea.

    So when I sign up for an account I don’t use a general email (except for banking stuff, taxes, etc.). If I sign up for Facebook (good riddance) I’d use facebook@xyz.com. That way I also know when I suddenly get a lot of spam who lost my email or sold it off :)

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      1 year ago

      had a bank spend an hour making phone calls before letting me use bankname@mydomain.com one time, they ended up letting me use it in the end but acted like i was hacking the entire bank it was really amusing.

      This scheme has been invaluable for spending decades on the internet. When a company sells your email off you instantly know who sold it and blocking that address on your end fixes the issue immediately.

      Anyone who wants to try a lightweight version of this google supports +tokens in the name portion of your email address. So if you are steve@gmail.com and you sign up at nike.com enter the address as steve+nike@gmail.com (if their system lets you, many do not). then if you get spam at steve+nike@gmail.com that isn’t from nike you know it was them who sold your address.

      makes filtering easier too like if you fish sign up as steve+fishing at all your fishing sites and you can catch them all with one fiter and don’t have to add each domain individually to have them labeled properly.

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      1 year ago

      Oh nice. I wasn’t thinking along the lines of self hosted email. Thanks for the insight.

      Maybe I’ll try to set up something similar in the future.

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        1 year ago

        In my case it’s self-hosted, but maybe there are email providers where you can use your own domain that enable the same feature (it’s called wildcard usually).