Can other lemmy clients or the server admins see the email address associated with my account?

@helloworld@lemmy.ml
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Can I change the email address associated with my account? I did not find it in the settings?

Drunk & Root
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contact the support of your instance unless it explicitly saya otherwise in there tos

davel [he/him]
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@helloworld@lemmy.ml
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so once I delete the email contained in that field, it will be deleted on the server as well I hope? I should look this up in the lemmy code i.g.

davel [he/him]
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I assume it’s removed from your user record in the Postgres database. Presumably there are database backups that will retain it. I haven’t worked on the Lemmy codebase nor do I sysadmin the server, so that’s all I can speculate from my past past experience designing & managing services of this kind.

@helloworld@lemmy.ml
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I found this answer helpful, can you open it? https://lemmy.ml/post/35169048/20671736

BlueÆther
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lemmy=# select p.name, i.domain, p.display_name, p.email from person p join instance i on p.instance_id = i.id where name='helloworld';
ERROR: column p.email does not exist

email only exists in the local_user table

davel [he/him]
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Can I open what? I can only get my own email address through the API: https://lemmy.readme.io/reference/get_site

curl -s -w "\n" -H "authorization: Bearer ${JWT}" https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/site \
    | jq -r '.my_user.local_user_view.local_user.email'
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