“Funny”
and I didn’t even received a message telling me why :)

Inspired by your post, I just wrote a post about buying email accounts anonymously using darknet markets: https://sh.itjust.works/post/60519693. But here’s the guide from the bottom of my post:

1. install Tor Browser Bundle, and use it for the following steps
2. search for websites like Daunt, Dread forums, and Tor Taxi. Darknet markets change all the time so use those websites to figure out which ones are currently active. Cross-check links across multiple websites to make sure they are trustworthy, since often scam websites will try to pose as legitimate ones
3. look for markets that let you search for the product you’re interested in before signing up, to save you time
4. some markets require you to load funds into the market and then pay using those funds. Avoid loading more than you need, since some markets have “rugpulled” before (aka taken everybody’s funds and disappeared. This is the risk of an anonymous market).

Also, if you are fine wit emailing the website owner, try contacting webmaster@[domain]. Sometimes those are monitored.

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

Depending on where you live, mailbox.org also offers payment by cash.

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.

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.

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.

i created a proton address without issue with just username + password recently.

where are you located?

why don’t you post your open message on the threadiverse since you have an account already?

I ran into the same problem recently and gave up. (You were much more persistent / stubborn than me; thanks for compiling the above list!)

All major providers prevent you from registering anonymously because they don’t want to have their services abused by spammers and scammers. Your best bet might be to get a VoIP number (not one of those public ones, but a paid one just for yourself), possibly paid with crypto. (Monero?) I haven’t tried that route, though, because it wasn’t worth the effort for me.

What do you mean by “do not accept 3rd party registration email”?

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.