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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago

After 20-25 years, it's more or less used for a spam pit and less important things now. No sense walking away from it when there's no finances or other dangerous things attached

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

10 yo me on his way to include his day, month and year of birth in his reddit username that cannot be changed and to get enough karma on that account to not want to delete it.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I'm glad I did!

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

At least you weren’t born in 1988.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Warez is pronounced like “where’s” right? My friend said it like Juarez, the place in Mexico, and I can’t help but hear it like that in my head.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I find it incredibly annoying that Google won't let you merge or transfer purchases to a new account.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

YES BITCH! I'm stuck using this ancient account I'd really rather not in order to access my purchases. Luckily most of the things I've bought are no longer available. However I did just buy premium for Boost for Lemmy.... Fuck it. I'm buying it again.

Thank you for the reminder for me to switch over. I actually needed that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like how this was your reminder. I mean, you just made a thread about this very topic...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

I was born with the ability to post memes, not think about them. Thinking hard.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

While it's not quite the same, Google does allow you to stay signed into multiple accounts. Just click your profile photo in the upper-right and click "Add another account". After signing into the other account, you can seamlessly switch between them. The same steps can also be used for any Google Android app.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Edgyvideogamecharacter22@hotmail .com

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I bet you have a very wholesome password

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

PW:

u#'o*zaQMyPC"fnw?Cu9OSrxYeEDCe6yXgzQYL4NxP?k%sx+'dBKfdru0CUmD&

If the server won't take a 64-char pw with letters, numbers, and symbols then is it even worth using?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm gonna use your password, but change one character so it's mine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Go for it!

I generated it in KeePass for this comment and actually interestingly it looks like Lemmy butchered/sanitized/modified it as well

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

EdgyEarly2000Song55

Nah it's just coldplay.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

same email for 20+ years, if i was starting over, i would choose something shorter and easier to spell

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

You missed your chance with your account here too

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I made that mistake with my first vanity domain. It sucked having to spell it out every time lol

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh god don't remind me, I STILL have stuff tied to that email

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Friend got locked out of Instagram account because yahoo deactivated their email. Instagram flagged the email as inactive. After my friend forgot their password, Instagram wouldn't send pw reset emails even after reactivating the account. They also has no direct customer support whatsoever, so that account was lost.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

More like 8 yr old lol

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I got pretty lucky that 1) my usernames have all been pretty tame if a bit boring and 2) I never published anything horrible under my IRL name

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I publish all of my horrible stuff online under your real name just to fuck with you

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Bank: and your email is "TigOlBiddies69 @ email com?"

Me: "Yes is there a problem?"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I was in college I got an early invite to Gmail, and did the fistname.lastname address.

All my day jobs have also had the same format, as does my university faculty ID (I teach night classes).

It's kinda handy that you just use my (unique) name and the organization to get in touch with me.

Though it's super annoying on my phone's autocomplete since the screen above the keyboard shows "firstname.lastname@...." 3 times and I don't know which is which.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I still keep my Hotmail/Yahoo/etc., but I've gotten my name as a domain and use that for professional communication.

It has catch-all support, so whether you send an email to [email protected] or "XxX_[email protected]", I still receive it.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You guys are still using the same email?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Trying to get highscore on haveibeenpwned.com. 37 so far

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I only got eleven, guess my password is alright?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank goodness Gmail came out so I could get away from my Yahoo email.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

you will be thanking protonmail, tutanota or posteo.de

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My first Hotmail address was based off my football position and jersey number. During high school I changed positions and numbers along the way, making it obsolete like a year after creating it

Still useful for signing up to things I know are gonna spam me with bullshit though, the ad copy can join old MySpace reminders.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Ah, mister SafetySafety88 ?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

When I was like 11 I made two emails, one with a dumb name and another more professional one that's just my name. I didn't want to send emails to adults with the dumb name one because I didn't want to explain it.

11 year old me was way too serious.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My first was dingdong86@aol and then dudeguy2202@yahoo

Today I use something more professional, last name + my first and middle initials.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just... get a new email? I use a separate email for every account now

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Does anyone remember when marijuana.com allowed to create a free email?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I use it as an alt now

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