stepanzak,

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.

SternburgExport,

And yet you ended up here

stepanzak,

I’m glad I did!

ipkpjersi,

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

Potatos_are_not_friends,

Bank: and your email is “TigOlBiddies69 @ email com?”

Me: “Yes is there a problem?”

alphapuggle,

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

ComradeChairmanKGB,
@ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml avatar

It was me Barry

BambiDiego,

Dick move other Barry

lazycouchpotato,
@lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world avatar

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 hi@name.com or “XxX_360noscopegamer_xXx@name.com”, I still receive it.

funkless_eck,

I do the same. And if someone abuses a particular alias I block it.

Misconduct,

Wait, so you can just willy-nilly name emails for your domain for different online services and see who’s selling your data pretty easily then right?

I mean… who isn’t selling our data but still lol

Flumsy,

Exactly and then you can block that one addressband you dont get spam anymore. You can make the addresses up as you go btw, it will receive every email sent to your domain anywaya

Misconduct,

That’s actually really cool! I’ve been actively degoogling this year but my email is one of the last holdouts so I’ll have to look into this

max,

Another advantage of having your own domain for email is that you can just pack your shit and move to greener pastures when your current email provider turns to shit. No need to change your email everywhere.

Illecors,

Yes! I’ve literally found out about a data leak this way before it was announced publicly.

Misconduct,

That’s neat

berkersal,

I just set that up. Pretty useful

BluJay320,
@BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Deadname@yahoo.com

Name and domain both deceased

user224,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

and domain

Nope. mail.yahoo.com

ChewTiger,

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.

FordBeeblebrox,

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.

Tankton,

Ah, mister SafetySafety88 ?

Annoyed_Crabby,

Edgyvideogamecharacter22@hotmail .com

swab148,
@swab148@startrek.website avatar

I bet you have a very wholesome password

Rootiest,

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?

robot_dog_with_gun,

all i see is *****************************************************************

swab148,
@swab148@startrek.website avatar

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

Rootiest,

Go for it!

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

Rootiest,

Which character are you going to change?

Annoyed_Crabby,

EdgyEarly2000Song55

Nah it’s just coldplay.

irmoz,

My favourite song is “Yellow” and my surname is “Rain”… you can guess what my first email at age 10 was…

Okay I made that up, but I bet something like that has happened

pascal,

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

Squid,

I use it as an alt now

TimeSquirrel,
@TimeSquirrel@kbin.social avatar

kornfan82@angelfire.com

xusontha,

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

potoo22,

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.

alldreadme,
@alldreadme@lemmy.world avatar

Idk I have pretty normal usernames. Never had those dodgy cool ones, Ig I was boring all along

PersnickityPenguin,

I made an alias so unique, that if you Google it you get my bloody home address and other doxxing information. Not good!

And worse, that’s literally all the I do Google spits out. There’s literally nothing else.

Martineski,
@Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I don’t believe you, prove it. :)

PersnickityPenguin,

Haha, almost got me there!

Just Google “penguin,” I’m all over the interwebs. 😅

Anafabula,
@Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

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

EcstaticHumility,
@EcstaticHumility@lemmy.one avatar

You guys are still using the same email?

Kalkaline,
@Kalkaline@leminal.space avatar

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

pewgar_seemsimandroid,

you will be thanking protonmail, tutanota or posteo.de

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