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What is your email used for when signing up to Lemmy? Is it just for password reset?

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I assume it can be seen by admins?

I trust my admins, but I still used a forwarding service because there's always a risk of an attack exposing data. Unless there's some other security there I don't know about

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes us instance admin can pull the email address form local users.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you pull for foreign users? Curious what other federated instances can see

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 7 points 1 year ago

select person.id,name,local,local_user.email from person join local_user on person.id = local_user.person_id where person.id =2;

id | name | local | email

----+-----------+-------+---------------------

2 | BlueEther | t | firstname@lastname.nz

Email is only available for local users and only if filled in on the signup form

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s no interface for it, but the emails can be extracted from the database, no doubt.