In what appears to be an escalating incursion into a user’s digital privacy, a collective of film companies continue to implore the court to compel Reddit to surrender its users’ personal details. This move is part of an ongoing piracy liability case against Internet Service Providers. Reddit, however, steadfastly resists, staunchly defending its users’ rights to anonymous speech.
You can use the email for password reset, so it must be stored by the instance. Whether or not it gets overwritten is up to the instance, so it’s good security practice to assume it’s stored in perpetuity unless you have reason to suspect otherwise.
On my instance it stays in backups for up to 7 days. But if I ever get a request for providing email address because of pirating, well it’s a known fact backups do fail sometimes.
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]
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One question comes to mind, does the email you put in when you register at a instance get saved somewhere, and does it stay when its overwritten?
You can use the email for password reset, so it must be stored by the instance. Whether or not it gets overwritten is up to the instance, so it’s good security practice to assume it’s stored in perpetuity unless you have reason to suspect otherwise.
My instance didn’t require me to get an email, but if they did so you can use those email forwarders like simplelogin, duckduckgo, or firefox.
My instance didn’t ask gör email.
On my instance it stays in backups for up to 7 days. But if I ever get a request for providing email address because of pirating, well it’s a known fact backups do fail sometimes.