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.

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    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?

    • Rimu@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      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.