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.

  • Rimu@piefed.socialOPM
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    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.