I also reached out to them on Twitter but they directed me to this form. I followed up with them on Twitter with what happened in this screenshot but they are now ignoring me.

  • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    11 months ago

    Doesn’t surprise me one bit. I’ve noticed that a lot of websites will only accept .com and a few will only accept email addresses from popular providers (Gmail, Hotmail, outlook, etc.)

    My guess is that it’s trying to reduce spam and fake account generation.

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      57·
      11 months ago

      My guess is that it’s trying to reduce spam and fake account generation.

      Thus preventing the growth of any small providers and further entrenching Microsoft, Google, Apple, and a handful of others as the only “viable” options.

    • MBM@lemmings.worldEnglish
      51·
      11 months ago

      Feels very relevant to the fediverse, with how people tend to compare it to email.

    • Throwaway@lemm.eeEnglish
      913·
      11 months ago

      Yeah, that’s it pretty much.Like 99% of your legitimate users are going to be standard gmail/yahoo/hotmail/etc. You see a user from ten minute mail, it’s probably some shady shit.

      • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        221·
        11 months ago

        Not necessarily shady.

        I use 10 minute email if a merchant requires me enter an email account before seeing the total price on an item (including shipping). That’s the most common pattern I’ve seen. My guess is that they want to ping you to complete the purchase.

        Or a website might require free registration in order to view the content.

        One place I use 10-minute email is actually Spotify. I didn’t want to give them my Gmail address since your name is exposed to the world via their sharing API.

        Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of bad uses for it as well. But privacy minded people use it too.