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Doesn't help too much, you can generate infinite email accounts with gmail for an example.
Manual acceptance of each and every user helps, but it's not sustainable.
Don't even need that, 1 click temporary email boxes everywhere
That's what I used.... I have no intention of being a troll or asshole, but I don't want social media like this platform linked to me IRL and never have.
Personally I just use a dumping ground email address. Just an address i use for any website I donβt particularly trust that I never look at unless I know thereβs a confirmation email waiting for me
True, but a common thing websites do is block those domains, at least the easier to find ones. Nearly nobody blocks gmail.
You could block using + in a Gmail address.
Some sites do this and it's annoying. A better check is to compare the part before the + if it's Gmail.
Yeah, that's probably better.
You can add a
.
anywhere in the username part of a GMail address.u.ser.na.m.e@gmail.com
is the same asusername@gmail.com
Whether or not Lemmy supports this at this point, I dunno, but it's easy enough to code your username verification to remove all +s and periods before continuing to ensure uniqueness.
Period can be removed with gmail emails. However, for +s, the whole part after + and before @ needs to be removed if removing+ as that part indicates the folder emails come to. Yet, the same issue would still remain for any Google Workspace emails as they also support + but doesnt end with gmail domain.
Ah yes, you corrected my logic on the +. Thanks for the added insight on the Google workspace.
That is not actually true. The + method works, but not the . method.
According to Google it works
Not if you filter out . and + in gmail addresses.
In any address. Most email services support + and a few support . as well.
I use .in my email addresses with no malicious intent
Sure but in gmail addresses, the dots are ignored, and anything after the + is also ignored. You can add as many dots as you want and will still go to the same address.
It has similar function as "+"
email@gmail.com e.mail@gmail.com em.ail@gmail.com ema.il@gmail.com emai.l@gmail.com etc.