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.
I have to chime in and say this feels a bit underthought feature. I use a throwaway email for everything possible, and I would imagine a large portion of Fediverse users do that too.
I also get the motivation behind the feature. I didn’t feel like throwaway addresses are worth it before I started using them. They may seem like an obvious spammer flag. But I’d say it’s 50/50, just like with any free email provider like gmail or Proton mail.
You say it’s 50/50 based on your own experience/anecdotal evidence. Admins will probably be able to make that determination with a much greater deal of accuracy based on what they see happening on their instance. So it makes sense to leave the choice to them/enable them to make that choice, right?
True, I failed to mention that I think there could be a setting to enable the feature, or dismiss the warning per-account. @rimu@piefed.social maybe consider this?
Sure
Throwaway emails seem kind of necessary on small, underdeveloped, easily hacked websites.
We’ll see. If it turns out to be useless noise, I’ll remove it from the signal.
I think it’s good that it’s a simple flag and not an outright block.
It’s just a way for admins to see “maybe take a closer look at this registration.”
I’m sure there are a lot of legitimate users that use these types of emails, though.