Can other lemmy users see my email address I registered with? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by helloworld@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Can other lemmy clients or the server admins see the email address associated with my account?

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[-] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I assume it’s removed from your user record in the Postgres database. Presumably there are database backups that will retain it. I haven’t worked on the Lemmy codebase nor do I sysadmin the server, so that’s all I can speculate from my past past experience designing & managing services of this kind.

[-] helloworld@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

I found this answer helpful, can you open it? https://lemmy.ml/post/35169048/20671736

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

Can I open what? I can only get my own email address through the API: https://lemmy.readme.io/reference/get_site

curl -s -w "\n" -H "authorization: Bearer ${JWT}" https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/site \
    | jq -r '.my_user.local_user_view.local_user.email'

[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

lemmy=# select p.name, i.domain, p.display_name, p.email from person p join instance i on p.instance_id = i.id where name='helloworld';
ERROR: column p.email does not exist

email only exists in the local_user table

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