For people on hear-me.social:

I use my own email server, which enjoys a stellar reputation.

Please maintain a usable email address for your account.

If notifications from the server to your email address begin hard bouncing due to a non-existent email address, this will impact my email server’s reputation.

If I cannot reach you to have you replace your email address with one that doesn’t bounce because you lock out DMs and don’t follow me, or haven’t logged in for a long time, I will delete your account to protect the email server. It is hellish to try to get removed from some of these email blacklists or convince someone like Google that I’m not a spammer. Hard bounces are spammer red flags to email providers.

I just deleted an account for this reason. It was bouncing several emails per day, and I couldn’t reach the owner.