Use email aliasing service or custom domain and get a different email address for each account/website
My email is only 30 years old because it was initially created solely to keep my everquest guild data handy
@hotmail.com, @yahoo.com, my own host, @gmail.com, @protonmail.com. Seems like I make a new one every decade or so.
Almost exactly the same, except my proton is @proton.me.
And I’ve have my Hotmail since a year or two after it started, so almost 30 years.
Fun facts, I own a domain name and created a new email address.
I’m currently considering making it my main email address.
Also a good reason to leave outlook and gmail.
That’s a good idea because then you can always change your mail provider without changing your email address on all websites
I’m not sure if I understand properly what you mean.
Is it a good idea or a bad idea?
I think the person was saying it’s a good idea to have your own domain because with a gmail.com address, you’re stuck with Gmail. With your own, you can change providers any time by setting up your addresses at the new provider and updating the mail records to point to them. Boom! New email provider, same addresses.
Yeah, that’s what I think too.
You simply have to make sure that you keep the domain name and make the transition from gmail to the new address smooth.
Everything else is just technical details. Not a problem for me.
Note that if you let your domain lapse and someone else registers it afterwards, that person will also gain control over your e-mail address (and likely all accounts associated with it, if they are not secured with an additional factor of authentication / recovery).
Wow, are you serious? That’s crazy!
What if I delete everything if I ever let my domain lapse?
In the same time, it is the name of my company, I assume I will keep it forever until I die.
As long as you’re very thorough about removing any linked connection from your expired e-mail, you should be OK. That includes all accounts that you registered using this e-mail, as well as all e-mail contacts that you’ve built up using that account.
With your own domain you also can also make up email addresses on the fly anytime.
Last I tried that was over 20 years ago, and I was getting bombed with 13,000 spam emails an hour.
Though I’d imagine privately-hosted spam filtering has gotten much better since then.
That’s good to know.
Maybe try domain name privacy.
I still use my old email but it’s been relegated to “email that goes in websites I don’t trust”
This cat is using a computer.
Your argument is invalid.
No, that one still gets all the spam. Was in some breaches. I use it for sketchy sites.
I lost my original one, because I didn’t know shit about secure passwords, and never bothered to try to have it recovered.
I used to work for a retail company that signed people up for preferred customer accounts, and there are largely 2 kinds of emails: Robert.Layfield@gmall.com and BigMon3yT_Bone69@hotmall.com
I got a Gmail when it came out back when Hotmail was 10MB and gmail had a size that you could see grow on top. It is just my name shortened.
XxUnProxX6969420@gmail.com, gotcha!
Probably Elon Musk email…
I think that’s his kids name, actually.
Including “atpersand Gmaildotcom”. It’s dignified. Can’t just say “at”. Like a pleb.
It’s like only rich people naming their kid Matthew instead of Mathew. Poor folk can’t afford the second “T”, but like to pronounce it like they’re a “someone” anyway.
I remember watching that number tick up.
I got Gmail on an invite.
Everyday I am thankful that my parents chose my email for me as a kid.
my parents chose my email too, then i went ahead and made a new and used that
I still use my first email address.
It gets flooded with spam, so I use those scam emails as my database of real scammer numbers to call, then I fire up my VM and fuck with them
I have 5 emails, the most used and first being made when i was 7 or 8 and contains my real name
99’ yahoo account? Pretty much been my spam account since I got a Gmail in 04’
Lol, same. Although my Gmail is starting to become kindo of spammy now & I might have to cut my losses again.
Subject: Job Application
From:
pussyslayer420xxx@hotmail.com
myfullnameanddateofbirth@hotmail.com
The suggestions for email addresses if yours was already taken used to include what you entered plus the last two digits of your birth year. I wonder how many people born in 1988 followed that advice and now deeply regret it.
Pretty sure just yesterday I saw a Lemmy comment bemoaning that 88 had been co-opted for exactly this reason.
Wait what are all you talking about? 88 just means shit like hugs and kisses or good luck.
“Cultural significance” > “in Neo-nazism”
The link you gave provides you with the answer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_(number)#In_neo-Nazism
Let’s not let neonazis take culturally common shit like the okay sign, thumbs up, or literal numbers please.
Let’s seize these concepts back, comrades! We will redistribute them back to the people!
this was already a thing way before emails became a thing
Can you start
on Mondaytonight 😏
Unfortunately, my first email address was @geocities.com.
Godspeed, you ugly collection of websites.
Same. deepshitjunkie@geocities.com to be precise.
Mine is @aol.com and I’m afraid I’m gonna have to change emails for every single service I’ve ever used one day 🫠