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MagicShel@lemmy.zip 5 days agoThen you’re just going to be at the mercy of the people that do run these things. I realize maybe my response was taken as disagreement or argument but it really wasn’t meant that way.
As a product owner I’d want a way to contact or validate a user for customer service or service management reasons. Self service password reset, etc.
But I’m interested in anonymity and if there were another good solution I’d be all ears. I’m not trying to defend email, just curious what mechanism could take its place. Some sort of cryptographic signature might work, though I would have to think carefully about no separate communication/ confirmation channel. I could see offering someone to use any identity of their choosing which would allow them as much anonymity and freedom of choice as they wanted. It’s an interesting challenge.
Ulrich@feddit.org 5 days ago
I wasn’t asking for a way around them, I’m asking why they exist and suggesting we collectively move on from them.
You may not have intended it but your response was a dismissal of my concern. Rather than discussing why it’s necessary or whether it should be removed, you suggest that I create my own alternative.
You can. We’ve already been over this. Send them a message on the platform.
How is an email address validation? I can spin one up in 3 seconds.
You’re just creating a security vulnerability.
Again, I already explained this.
Some platforms only require a username and a passkey (not even a password). That is ideal, in my opinion.
Email is also used to track user activity across the web, and while you know whether or not you will be tracking, collecting, and selling my activity, I don’t. Removing email eliminates that concern.
That’s called a Passkey.
Again I ask, why? What is this fixation on multiple communication methods? Maybe as the user I don’t want you to have other ways of contacting me?
If you really need it there are hundreds of alternatives.