Is leaving the email as a required field for registration against FOSS philosophy by any means? even if it won’t be used for anything other than user verification/notifications if agreed by the user?
Is leaving the email as a required field for registration against FOSS philosophy by any means? even if it won’t be used for anything other than user verification/notifications if agreed by the user?
If you are concerned about the privacy of it all, you can use services like SimpleLogin and AnonAddy, which give you garbage emails. So you don’t really give much information with an email.
And if you can selfhost it it’s a whole other level.
Not really. If you selfhost, all the emails you create share the same domain, which can easily be used to identify you if you’re the only one using it. Theses services have the advantage of letting you blend in the crowd.
i guess you could self host and let other people use it, like what gmail did
You’re going to have a hard time getting a crowd as large as SimpleLogin’s