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Defederated from Feddit.nl. Update: Refederated! (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lwadmin@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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Lately we have been dealing with a few abusive members from Feddit.nl and we were unable to get in touch with the instance administrator.

Part of the problem is the instance's open registrations which do not require you to enter an e-mail address during signup. This in combination with an inactive admin is a recipe for abuse.

We hope this is only temporary but we have to do this to protect our users.

Edit: we use fediseer, have a look https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/lemmy.world

Edit 2: We got in touch with the Feddit.nl admin. Email requirements were added to the sign-up process and we're setting up a communication channel. So that means we are federating with Feddit.nl again!

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[-] Voyager@psychedelia.ink 5 points 1 year ago

Managing this for a large amount of services is a huge overhead for me. I use Sub-addressing and then apply filters based on categories.

[-] IdleSheep@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you have catch all enabled for your custom domain there's no overhead.

Signing up for reddit? Just put reddit@example.com and that address will be automatically created and start receiving reddit's emails. Don't have to fiddle with anything.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I like this.

I use legacy free g suite, might see if it supports this

https://smash.vc/gsuite-catch-all-guide/

[-] dpkonofa@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It annoys the shit out of me how many developers don’t allow for sub-addressing. Google has supported it on Gmail since inception and it follows the damn spec! Don’t use your crappy form validator if it doesn’t allow valid emails!

[-] Copernican@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I've always been curious. Do any parties just remove the string between "+" and "@" when they see those emails registered?

[-] dpkonofa@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Not that I’ve seen. Some do however incorrectly escape the string and end up with an invalid email like namesite.com@gmail.com instead of name+site.com@gmail.com.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Interesting. How does this work? I've never used it. I either add manual aliases or distribution groups. It's a pain in the ass but it works and is safer than using the same email for everything.

One thing I like is also how you can tell who sold your email to spammers 🤣

[-] jcg@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I do this as well but there's been quite a few times when the email input wouldn't accept it and it's usually on the sites you really wanna have it on.