The purpose of these kinds of aliases is to disassociate the human’s email address from the service. Alias services like this aren’t designed to enable multiple signups for a single service. Otherwise it would quickly be a tool abused by spammers, blocked by services, and useless for people.
I completely agree and I would like to add one more thing. The way simple login responded to this issue was very nice. They could have been a whole lot more aggressive about this.
So I can’t even use two different Lemmy accounts on different instances? Or have a public social media account and a ‘business’ one I use to share my own music or something? My dual-boxing MMO accounts? There’s a lot of use cases for 2 emails/accounts at the very least.
different Lemmy accounts on different instances?
Those are different websites though.
Technically true but they belong to the same ‘service’ and because of the vague policy, I dont know whether that means they’d suddenly terminate my account.
Lemmy does not offer any sort of SSO so I wouldn’t worry about it.
I don’t know what the limit is, but I have about 7 reddit accounts.
I find it interesting that Proton’s other alias solution doesn’t even know what domain aliases are used for. That information shouldn’t be necessary.
I do sometimes use it to create multiple accounts, but never more than two.
How did they find out???
Alias description? Inbox headers?Paid or free?
SimpleLogin premium, with their domain. But I can’t blame them for not wanting to ruin the simplelogin.com domain
I wonder if that’s the case for custom domains as well.
It’s trivial to figure out who is proxying your email, so I would assume yes.
If you have your own domain and need to create dozens of aliases for the same website, just self-host SimpleLogin.
Email is one of the services I will never self host.
I don’t self-host my primary mail server either, but it’s fine for my aliases (I use self-hosted addy.io but SimpleLogin can also be self-hosted). I use PGP to encrypt everything on my addy.io instance, and only decrypt it in my email client.
You should still be able to bypass the email requirement when creating a Reddit account, right? The only useful purpose I see behind it for the user is if you forget your password.
Yeah, you don’t need an email to make a Reddit account. If new Reddit complains use old Reddit.
Now head over to Erin.email and make an account with every simple login alias you have ever made
