Considering I signed up for Piefed and Lemmy with a tutamail account, I think maybe you're not reading that correctly.
There's a 24 or 72 hour cooldown period where you can't just go an immediately sign up for things, but that's about all.
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tutamail, for example, states that the free plan is not to be used to signup for services.
Just.. don't. Tuta is probably fine for paid services but they're well known for nuking free accounts for various reasons. And they might not enable you to send/receive from a free account to begin with - Last time I attempted to create a free account there, then asked support if they could enable me to be able to send/receive some emails, instead of responding they simply nuked my new free account.
You could check this website but be aware it's a long list for all kinds of services: https://riseup.net/radical-servers
I was able with Proton.
What?
I'm kinda surprised that any email would ask you to have a previous email to be able to create account... Proton surely didn't for me. The only way they could require identifying verification would be by demanding a cellphone number, because you can lie about everything else, hell, if you have an online service for that you can lie about that being your phone number as well.
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I don't there would be many due to the liability concerns. Also, it's a classic case of "if something is free, then you are the product". You can pay for an email provider that won't ask questions from you, deal with the restrictions (and potential privacy invasions) of the "free" options, or self-host.
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