Somebody subscribed to me on Dreamwidth with a name I didn’t recognize, but by the time I noticed and checked them out they had deactivated, noting that they were creeped out by the fact that the site made your email address public.
In case they see it over here, I wanted to note that while this is the default and therefore kind of a newbie trap, it can be disabled in the settings (along with your birthdate, location and other stuff). You can also choose to show that stuff only to people who are logged into Dreamwidth or only to people you’ve granted access to (i.e., people who can read your private posts). Finally, if you want to show an email but not the email that you use for account admin, there is an option for that, though nowadays having any email exposed on the web is kind of gutsy.
Dreamwidth has a good rundown of site privacy here and here, if you want more detailed information. I wish I could conceal my subscribes and community memberships, but other than that I’m pretty satisfied with how they handle things.
this is a good psa if you’re like me and hastily made an account for later use and didn’t know that a website operational in 2018 would display an email by default D:
1 – Really? Mine is set as “Do not show” and I don’t remember deliberately doing that, so it must have been a pretty seamless part of the account creation process to set that.
2 – Actually this may well be the best email privacy control I have ever seen on the net:
I can pick whether or not to show an email – and even then, I can pick different email addresses for administration and user contact. That’s fantastic.
(But you probably should go check your email default – it might have come completely naturally to me to mark that as “Do not show” during the account creation process, but perhaps not so much for you?)
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#PSA #Dreamwidth #(I honestly don’t remember what the default privacy settings were it’s been six years since I originally made the account) #(I know that currently my email is private and my birthday and location are precisely as public as I intended them to be)
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