What is your email used for when signing up to Lemmy? Is it just for password reset?
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Password reset and notifications.
We use it as an (imperfect) speed bump for spammers. Also for password resets. That’s about it.
I assume it can be seen by admins?
I trust my admins, but I still used a forwarding service because there’s always a risk of an attack exposing data. Unless there’s some other security there I don’t know about
Yes us instance admin can pull the email address form local users.
Can you pull for foreign users? Curious what other federated instances can see