I love you @404mediaco, but I really wish I had a password auth instead of the whole "email you a magic link" thing every time I sign in.

@vkc @404mediaco I also complained about it to them before. Hopefully your voice carries more weight.
Like..... some of us have good passwoord hygene and have password managers and such...
Magic links are great... but as an option. Not if they're mandatory

@admin I use a service to generate fake emails for this sort of thing, it's awesome! I can always tell *exactly* who sold my email to folks, or where email leaks came from.

I almost never give out my real email to anyone other than a human I know in the real world.

I love you @404mediaco, but I really wish I had a password auth instead of the whole "email you a magic link" thing every time I sign in.

As someone who deletes all cookies daily across a half dozen devices, it adds a bunch of friction.

@vkc Same! Well, not a service, just wildcard aliases. Although I use hyphens in mine and occasionally sites roll their own validation code and decide hyphens aren't valid Surprisingly enough, forwarding RFC5322 to customer service usually helps! Lol

Honestly what I've learned is that most sites -- at least the ones I use -- are fine. Got a wave of spam from friggin Patreon when they got breached years ago...and I now filter out any ActionNetwork links from my feed on here...but that's basically all I've had an issue with in the >10 years I've been doing this.

I love you @404mediaco, but I really wish I had a password auth instead of the whole "email you a magic link" thing every time I sign in.

As someone who deletes all cookies daily across a half dozen devices, it adds a bunch of friction.

@vkc @admin May I ask which service you use? I use #Firefox #Relay right now, but am looking for a replacement since forever.

@vkc @admin May I ask which service you use? I use #Firefox #Relay right now, but am looking for a replacement since forever.

@mcbaumwolle @vkc @bane Well, the wildcard alias part of it is done through a domain and mail account I pay for through Namecheap. They call it a "catchall" address, other providers might call it a wildcard alias, but basically *anything* @mydomain will all go to a single inbox. The nice part of that compared to some of the services that generate addresses (not sure if this would apply to Fastmail) is I don't have to do anything to register or set up a new address, which is nice when giving out my email in offline spaces. Although it does get weird when the Jiffy Lube cashier sees my email is 'jiffylube-shop@...' and goes 'Oh you must work for corporate' xD

Of course, I can't leave it that simple I have a mail server in my basement -- fetchmail pulls incoming mail from Namecheap, and there's a very small shell script that parses it out into different accounts -- so for example anything that ends in '-shop@mydomain' will go into the 'Shopping' inbox, while anything ending in '-pers@mydomain' will go into the 'Personal' inbox. Then dovecot serves those to my devices via IMAP, and any outgoing mail can bounce through an emailrelay instance on the same server and get forwarded back out via Namecheap.

I hear trying to send email from a residential IP is a damn nightmare so that's why I route via Namecheap, but there's still both technical and legal benefits to pulling it all local and not leaving it all on third-party server indefinitely....

Does make it possible to correlate to my real identity, especially because my domain for that is my actual name xD But most domain registrars can anonymize the whois information, so it won't be private from law enforcement or something but it should be private enough from randos on the internet...as long as you aren't tying that domain to your real identity in other ways.

@mcbaumwolle @vkc @bane Well, the wildcard alias part of it is done through a domain and mail account I pay for through Namecheap. They call it a "catchall" address, other providers might call it a wildcard alias, but basically *anything* @mydomain will all go to a single inbox. The nice part of that compared to some of the services that generate addresses (not sure if this would apply to Fastmail) is I don't have to do anything to register or set up a new address, which is nice when giving out my email in offline spaces. Although it does get weird when the Jiffy Lube cashier sees my email is 'jiffylube-shop@...' and goes 'Oh you must work for corporate' xD

Of course, I can't leave it that simple I have a mail server in my basement -- fetchmail pulls incoming mail from Namecheap, and there's a very small shell script that parses it out into different accounts -- so for example anything that ends in '-shop@mydomain' will go into the 'Shopping' inbox, while anything ending in '-pers@mydomain' will go into the 'Personal' inbox. Then dovecot serves those to my devices via IMAP, and any outgoing mail can bounce through an emailrelay instance on the same server and get forwarded back out via Namecheap.

I hear trying to send email from a residential IP is a damn nightmare so that's why I route via Namecheap, but there's still both technical and legal benefits to pulling it all local and not leaving it all on third-party server indefinitely....

Does make it possible to correlate to my real identity, especially because my domain for that is my actual name xD But most domain registrars can anonymize the whois information, so it won't be private from law enforcement or something but it should be private enough from randos on the internet...as long as you aren't tying that domain to your real identity in other ways.

@admin @mcbaumwolle @vkc Oh okay, you indeed are slightly cyberpunk ;D
Your setup rocks but I certainly won't have the motivation to do the same lmao , i'll just register my domain in my mail provider if it allows it.
I guess you self host your mastodon instance too ? Are you federating easily ?

I love you @404mediaco, but I really wish I had a password auth instead of the whole "email you a magic link" thing every time I sign in.

As someone who deletes all cookies daily across a half dozen devices, it adds a bunch of friction.