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

    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