It appears to be an unauthorized provider.
Addy aliases are temporary email addresses (aliases) that forward messages to their primary email account. This can help protect a user’s real email address from spam, unwanted marketing, or potential data breaches.
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“Mastodon” is probably not doing that, a specific instance might be though?
Yeah good point, in my case it was mastodon.social
It’s all about the instance. For the Lemmy instance I chose I had to write a few sentences. For mastodon I had to provide a picture of my SubGenius pastor card. I intentionally picked ones that had requirements.
It depends on the instance. I created an account on mastodon with guerillamail which would be even more suspicious for an average website than your alias email. A tip, if you do not mind using icloud email, you can even create one with some effort without giving real personal data and using apple hardware (Virtual machines ftw), you can take advantage of its free alias email addresses which would be accepted even on most strict websites.
It also protects them from a sense of personal responsibility knowing their true identity can’t be easily traced. This is what Mastodon doesn’t like about them.
Get a domain and link it so you have your own domain addy.io . It’s not very hard.
You can use the domain for other things too.
That defeats the purpose.
How does it defeat the purpose?
The domains have nothing that is traceable to you. addy.io provide that opportunity for you to do just that. What’s the issue?
If you have your own domain how are they going to trace that to anyone else?
