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Can other lemmy users see my email address I registered with? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 20 hours ago by helloworld@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Can other lemmy clients or the server admins see the email address associated with my account?

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[–] helloworld@lemmy.ml 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

so once I delete the email contained in that field, it will be deleted on the server as well I hope? I should look this up in the lemmy code i.g.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I assume it’s removed from your user record in the Postgres database. Presumably there are database backups that will retain it. I haven’t worked on the Lemmy codebase nor do I sysadmin the server, so that’s all I can speculate from my past past experience designing & managing services of this kind.

[–] helloworld@lemmy.ml 4 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I found this answer helpful, can you open it? https://lemmy.ml/post/35169048/20671736

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

lemmy=# select p.name, i.domain, p.display_name, p.email from person p join instance i on p.instance_id = i.id where name='helloworld';
ERROR: column p.email does not exist

email only exists in the local_user table

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 16 hours ago

Can I open what? I can only get my own email address through the API: https://lemmy.readme.io/reference/get_site

curl -s -w "\n" -H "authorization: Bearer ${JWT}" https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/site \
    | jq -r '.my_user.local_user_view.local_user.email'