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Now that a lot of the commotion has subsided I'm just curious to know how y'all are finding the Lemmy experience in general and whether you use it regularly like you did reddit?

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[โ€“] gentoo_biscuit@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you create a custom email for everything? That seems hard to me

[โ€“] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I own a domain, for example xyz.com, which means I can create whatever email I want, like lemmy@xyz.com.

The mail server I set up forwards all emails to one inbox. Which means I still get an email if you send it to reddit@xyz.com or whatever@xyz.com and so on, you get the idea.

So when I sign up for an account I don't use a general email (except for banking stuff, taxes, etc.). If I sign up for Facebook (good riddance) I'd use facebook@xyz.com. That way I also know when I suddenly get a lot of spam who lost my email or sold it off :)

[โ€“] gentoo_biscuit@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh nice. I wasn't thinking along the lines of self hosted email. Thanks for the insight.

Maybe I'll try to set up something similar in the future.

[โ€“] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

In my case it's self-hosted, but maybe there are email providers where you can use your own domain that enable the same feature (it's called wildcard usually).