Is signing up with email forced by devs? I would like to sign up for piedfed but I don't like to include my email for, well, anything psuedo-anonymouse like social networking. I haven't been able to find any instances that don't require email (my preferred is piefed.ca)

Why not just get an alternate email account that you only use for pseudo-anonymous sites like this?

There is the possibility to just host yourself like I do.

It's not forced by devs, it is a setting that admins can turn on or off.

Don't lemmy.ca and Piefed.ca align on that requirement? @shadow@lemmy.ca ?

They do these days. Their lemmy.ca account might predate that.

Because most email providers ask for a LOT of personal information nowadays, especially if you use a VPN

Posteo and alias

Thank you!

For reference I signed up during the Reddit exodus

Yeah makes sense, we waffled on that requirement originally.

We don't restrict use of anonymous email things, but we require email to reduce the spammers