The main thing with Masked Email is that you can use it to sign-up for different services. Like your phone number, it's another way that your identity can be connected between accounts. It's also something you can use to give out to people, without having to give out your read address. I know with your own domain, you can use email addresses at that domain or you can use fastmail.com. I prefer to make masked emails using fastmail.com, so no one even knows my domain.
leopardboy
joined 2 years ago
Cool!
Some features I really like include the following.
- They've got a totally decent email client.
- You can have more than one domain, if you want.
- You can use masked email, which is really nice for privacy reasons.
Good luck!
It's pretty neat being able to do that.
Personally, I decided to stick with a native Lemmy UI experience instead of following communities from my Mastodon account.
Could you please explain? Thanks.
Replying to you from my new instance here.
I know that Fastmail can sort that out for you, and get the domain you want setup for email. I believe they can register the domain, too, but I know they can at least host the DNS. That would be my personal suggestion.
Yeah, I think I'm totally into it.
I think it's a matter of personal preference.
I've been running my own Mastodon instance for several months now, and I've enjoyed it. I don't have to rely on someone else, either, which is nice. I'm in control of everything on that instance.
As for Lemmy, I just started my own instance today, and am currently writing you from it. What made me decide to setup my own instance was some performance issues I was seeing with Lemmy.world, although that might have been an UI problem. Anyway, I enjoy doing this stuff, so I'm running my own instance for the sake of doing it.
On the flip side, it's more expensive and time consuming, and I'm the one who has to worry about backing up data, etc. Like I said, though, I enjoy doing it, so it's no big deal.
Indeed. Consuming Lemmy content via a timeline interface isn't necessarily my cup of tea, at least not at this stage.