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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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 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.