Most of the Lemmy instances seem to require an email to sign up. That’s fine, except most of the places you would go to sign up for email want you to… already have an email. And often a phone number. And almost always a first name, last name, and birthday.
I promise not to do bad stuff, but I don’t want that sort of information able to be publicly associated with my accounts where I write stuff, when everyone inevitably loses their databases to hackers. Pseudonymity is good, actually; on the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog, etc.
Is anyone doing normal webmail registration anymore? Set username and password, receive email for free? I don’t even need to send anything to sign up for accounts elsewhere.
Happy to see your interest in aiparadise.moe! Personally I use proton mail for all my email account (https://proton.me). Can have your first and last name as your username or whatever you want, they also don’t require having an email already (only if you want password recovery) hope that helps!
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Should be able to reapply with your desired username with a proper email, nothing should be reserved on our end for it anymore. Let me know if it gives you any trouble though!