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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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I wonder how many thousands of spam bots have tried to connect to the servers and send email using text ripped from these pages federated across numerous domains.

And they can’t just block one website. They’d have to individually block every node if they want to crawl the web for email addresses to steal. I hope it’s a real thorn in their side.

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[–] moira@femboys.bar 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

At my instance I did setup a email wildcard (receive emails from any address on that domain which don't already have a account) and I get a lot of phishing and scam emails, most of them are send "to" /c/meta@femboys.bar, as link to this community is linked in sidebar, but I also seen emails "send to" random usernames

screenshot showing email mailbox, about 15 phishing emails

So yeah, It is happening, i wonder how bad it is on larger instances

[–] EtzBetz@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago

I was searching for this, but how can you do a wildcard account which will just receive mails from all aliases?

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
[–] 30p87@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago

Except if someone selfhosts lemmy and an email server, it would work again. If I'd selfhost lemmy on 30p87.de, 30p87@30p87.de as lemmy user would also be valid as an email address for 30p87.de.