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Github dislikes email "aliases" so much that they will shadow ban your otherwise normal activities for months, and once flagged, support will request not only a "valid" email domain but also that you remove the "alias" email from the account completely.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

fuck github. use a different git site, there are plenty!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Github is unfortunately the premier platform for collaborating with others to build FOSS. Until alternative forges support federation, any other forge is usually a dead end.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Huh, federated Git sounds nice.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Discord locks my account everytime I join a server

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I had the same issue with my Anonaddy alias, I just made an alias using my domain name and works fine now. It's unfortunate that so many project are on shithub.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I gave them an generic "alias" through a more mainstream service than silomails, we'll see if that pacifies them.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

What do you mean by email aliases?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Basically another email address that forwards everything to your main email.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

How would they even detect that? Blacklist common alias providers?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (6 children)

So a redirect instead of alias? E-mail alias is the address+alias@... thing.

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