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>>dredmo+(OP)
https://lemmy.ml OR https://lemmy.world and https://kbin.social and are quite nice. Been posting there myself and it is great.

Lemmy is having some stability issues across its instances because of this growth curve: https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/693866c7-8f65-4046-8781-58aee70...

>>bhoust+xb
I would sign up for lemmy but it requires an email

>>EMCyma+Mf
Did you manage to sign up for reddit without one?

>>InCity+Kh
Yes, this used to be a feature of Reddit, not sure if it still is.

>>omgmaj+qk
It used to be a feature of the entire internet, really. Email based signups weren't common in the infancy.

>>junon+5u
spam/bots grew out of control. You need to do something to curtail that, and email verification seems to be the most seemless solution.

That said, I've had a burner email for as long as my personal email for this very reason. I even have 2 burner gmails. It's not exactly a huge invasive measure like a phone number (which I'd never give to a site that isn't trying to take payments. Hell, still haven't given Amazon my phone number).

>>johnny+5G1
I agree with you, just was an observation about how things changed.