Lol you can join the community from another instance. If you’re talking about joining the instance, I just used a temp email and explained that in the application. Honestly it’s just to fend off bots.

You don’t have to be logged into that instance to join it though… That’s the whole point of being federated.

Gotta reset that password somehow :P At the core, all the interwebs are federated through email. God forbid you try to run a mail server these days though, blacklists are brutal. I hope activitypubland never gets that bad