[uabstraction]

You used to be able to do this, but e-mail has been required for some time.

Over on Lemmy, it is the instance operator's choice whether or not to require e-mail, but most instances currently do as a measure to mitigate bot signups.

[Sprocklem]

At least on old reddit, you can click "next" when it asks you for your email to skip that step.

[o_cho]

Yeah, unfortunately, it only works on old reddit. It's quite amusing to see how they treat old and new reddit as entirely different platforms.

[Seattle3503]

My experience has been your account will quickly get shadowbanned if you don't provide email.

[johnnyanmac]

I've even used burner emails and have been shadowbanned. email-less account definitely wouldn't get traction.

[Seattle3503]

This was also my experience when I tried to register a custom domain. The only thing that worked for me was using a Gmail account that I had used with other, older, accounts.