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Does app email-loggin a turn off or a barrier to you using it?

811 sats \ 22 comments \ @piecover 4 Feb culture

Yes. Many apps and websites don't even need user accounts and still insist in forcing registration. If it's something I really need I just use a disposable email. The best way would be to login with LN or Nostr.

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @piecover OP 4 Feb

Exactly

21 sats \ 9 replies \ @SwearyDoctor 4 Feb

what's your beef with email?

Email is one of the few systems left that's not totally swallowed up by big corporations, that runs decentralized, and that can in theory be permissionless if you set it up yourself (with caveats, as you need to pay someone for the address, and they can cut you off, and the silo is string, as I've met young people who thought all email was gmail and who did not grasp the concept of a thunderbird login with IMAP addresses; aaah)

The alternatives with most services are usually "facebook/google/twitter/email", of course email is the best option here. I get turned off by these OTHER ones.

And like the other reply said, you can always get a bunch of mail addresses, in theory you can get as many addresses and you create logins.

Just stay off the gmail.

3 sats \ 1 reply \ @freetx 4 Feb

A surprising number of SMTP servers only support port 25 (clear text).

Therefore although the traffic from your email client to your stmp server may be secure, the actual handoff from Server A -> Server B could happen in plaintext. This means that the ISPs involved could read all your emails. (hint hint, they do!)

Having said that most "chat" platforms are owned by big-tech...and SMS is snooped by telecom....so no real privacy there either.

4 sats \ 0 replies \ @piecover OP 4 Feb

So yeah no real privacy

3 sats \ 5 replies \ @GlobalThreat 4 Feb

f course email is the best option here. I get turned off by these OTHER ones. And like the other reply said, you can always get a bunch of mail addresses, in theory you can get as many addresses and you create logins. Just stay off the gmail. re

pretty sure googel, yahoo and ms own email now.

4 sats \ 3 replies \ @SwearyDoctor 4 Feb

I mean, I use neither of these, and I can email just fine. Though I'm perfectly aware that 3/4 of the mails I send are backed up, without my permission, on google's servers.

3 sats \ 1 reply \ @GlobalThreat 4 Feb

HN had a post about this yesterday. how corporations have stolen open protocols.

2 sats \ 0 replies \ @piecover OP 4 Feb

100%

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @piecover OP 4 Feb

Exactly

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @piecover OP 4 Feb

They do 100%

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @piecover OP 4 Feb

No beef, just think Lightning Loggins are better, faster, more private, and more convenient

31 sats \ 1 reply \ @ama 4 Feb

Pretty much, yes. When I find out, I usually try to look for an alternative that let you use LN, a BTC or LTC address, or Wallet Connect (haven't looked at Nostr Connect yet) to log in instead. Only if I don't find any and I really, really, really need/want to use that app, I then consider giving up my email address.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @piecover OP 4 Feb

100% an inconvenient now we have LN logging

24 sats \ 1 reply \ @Doo_Deux 4 Feb

I just use a disposable email address from https://www.1secmail.com most of the time.

https://github.com/sdushantha/tmpmail

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @piecover OP 4 Feb

Round about

4 sats \ 1 reply \ @hodlpleb 4 Feb

I find it annoying. I want to create my own password and just login and out as I wish.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @piecover OP 4 Feb

Oh yeah

3 sats \ 0 replies \ @OriginalSize 4 Feb

I prefer it to the usual login with Google/FB style. Sometimes takes an extra click. Throwaway emails are a good tool.

3 sats \ 0 replies \ @pi 4 Feb

Increasingly so, although, tools like proton pass with alias email addresses make it more bearable.

3 sats \ 1 reply \ @GlobalThreat 4 Feb

nope. i prefer it.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @piecover OP 4 Feb