Hi,
I wanted to contact the owner/administrator of a website. Unfortunately, they didn’t provide any means of contact ( email, phone number, online form, simpleX whatsoever).
So the only alternative that I had thought was to create a Mastodon account and publish an open communication with them tagged. ( who know with a bit of luck. )
Unfortunately, to create a Mastodon account, you have to provide an email 📧 address 😞 The problem with email address is that it can be correlated to track you down and more… there are so many examples online, I will not cover this here.
So the workaround is to create a new email address dedicated just for that usage or service. But it’s becoming merely impossible to create a free email account somewhere without giving up your identity. (phone number, ISP[1] email address, paying online with Fiat[2] , Cloudflare or whatever trick )
I’ve seen already few posts about this subject on lemmy and other platforms
- https://linux.community/post/388196
- https://lemmy.world/post/42242662
- https://lemmy.world/post/15049454
some quote from those links
Like it or not, email is a critical part of our digital lives. It’s how we sign up for accounts, get notifications, and communicate with a wide range of entities online. Critics of email rightfully point out that email suffers from a significant number of flaws that make it less than ideal, but that doesn’t change the current reality. In light of that reality, I believe that an encrypted email provider is a must-have for everyone in today’s age of rampant data breaches, insider threats, warrantless police access, and targeted advertising.
All the providers listed around the WWW are wrong ! Either they ask to identify yourself, or if you use Tor, you are blocked, or you cannot use it to register to any service online (third party).
See the table below \
Do not hesitate to propose any other, or maybe you have another solution ? Like self hosting email service ? I already dig up a little bit, but I found this and it looks scary. Thank you GAFAM…
So maybe it doesn’t look like much? But actually, it’s blocking me more and more. I cannot move/interact on internet or in real life ! because I get often “You have to register online” and that registration come with mandatory email…
Where I live, you better stay anonymous. Because what you say can definitely strike back to you. There is no freedom of speech. Please help to make internet free again.
Because we need it in our daily life and social interactions…
Thanks
mailbox•org 🤔
- not free,
only accept Fiat - last check: 2026-05-21
Which payment methods can I use?
Cash by post (By letter and EURO banknotes only - no cheques)
Cash deposit into our bank account
disroot•com ❌
- Require a identification email address
gmx•com ❌
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various blocking methods ( depending on IP )

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last check: 2026-05-20
inleed•com ❌
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Require a identification email address
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last check: 2026-05-21
mailo•com ❌
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Do not accept 3th-party registration email for an unknown period
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currently down
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last check: 2026-05-20
mailfence•com ❌
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Need to provide another e-mail address XD

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last check: 2026-05-21
proton•me ❌
- Do not accept 3th-party registration email
- last check: 2026-05-20
tuta•com ❌
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IP blocking
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TOR forbidden

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last check: 2026-05-20
Internet Service Provider ↩︎
Identity is an unsolved problem on the Internet. We’ve allowed email addresses to serve as a proxy for identity for a long time, but they no longer really work. As a result, we’ve lost both our ability to be anonymous and our ability to be known.
I’ve been playing with ideas to help fix this, and I’d like to connect with anyone working on something similar.
I have been trying to come up with a solution that retains anonymity while also preventing spam/scam/etc for a while now. I have a few ideas, but feel there’s room for improvements.Im’m up for discussing related ideas.
I’m working on it, I’ll PM you.
“Funny”
and I didn’t even received a message telling me why :)Not sure how well developed this Fediverse interaction between Lemmy-Mastodon is, but can you not reply from your Lemmy account to a Mastodon post ? And please change the broken disroot dot com link in your post into https://disroot.org/ t y
oh sorry for the broken link (they were not supposed to be link but header only… I’ll fix that )
Uhh, proton works fine…
You might need to clear your browsing data. You might want to start doing that all the time if you’re concerned about anonymity or privacy.
Good for you man ! may be you don’t use Tor ? I could create an account but at the first e-mail received my account has been “frozen” and I need to provide an ID. I’ll try to do a screenshot later on…
Yeah I use mullvad.
Zero issues with proton here as well… I create an alias for everything that asks for an email…
It’s almost like email providers dont want spammers to create accounts and send unsolicited emails to people with their service. Not that I think you will.
To receive an email you can run your own mail server if you have a domain because DMRK, SPF, and DKIM are all about authentication of emails that have been sent.
But domain registars also require email addresses for billing purposes.i created a proton address without issue with just username + password recently.
where are you located?
Use an alias service like addy.io or Proton’s SimpleLogin (I think DDG has a service too, or did) to create an email address to forward emails to your actual address, and then just don’t use the alias for anything else. I believe both of those take anonymous payment methods.




