What is your email used for when signing up to Lemmy? - eviltoast

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

  • Otter@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    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

      • Otter@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

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

        • BlueÆther@no.lastname.nz
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          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
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      1 year ago

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