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Who has access to our email addresses? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 days ago by jballs@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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There have been a lot of news articles lately about a concentrated movement to get people fired for making social media posts critical of Charlie Kirk. I'm wondering how effective such an effort would be against Lemmy, where many of us provided an email address when signing up.

Not being an admin, I'm curious if our email addresses tied to our users names are stored in a database that only the SJW admins can access - or if anyone creating their own instance would have access to the same database

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[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The email is only stored locally and never used in federation.
So that's local admins only, and even then, only if you have access to the database itself.
Right now, that would be TheDude and me.

Emails aren't very useful to us admins.
Sure, spammers tend to use junk emails, but (some) legit users also do, so it's a bit moot to start looking at addresses en masse.
Basically the only time I even see any email address is if they have trouble with the initial verification email.
The email is very useful to allow users to reset their password, but that's an automated process, and not something we'd look at.

Peace

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

But my client on my phone has my email as well though, right? Unless I used the browser on my phone.

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago

Yes, your email might be saved in some app you've used to login, including your browser's saved credentials thingy.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

Thanks I appreciate the info!