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
Use email aliasing service or custom domain and get a different email address for each account/website
Wait what do you mean you created a new mail, is that allowed?
No, the Internet people are coming for them right now.
Subject: Job Application
From:
pussyslayer420xxx@hotmail.commyfullnameanddateofbirth@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.
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!
“Cultural significance” > “in Neo-nazism”
this was already a thing way before emails became a thing
Can you start
on Mondaytonight 😏
This cat is using a computer.
Your argument is invalid.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
I remember watching that number tick up.
I got Gmail on an invite.
[email protected], 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 used to work for a retail company that signed people up for preferred customer accounts, and there are largely 2 kinds of emails: [email protected] and [email protected]
I have 5 emails, the most used and first being made when i was 7 or 8 and contains my real name
I still have and use an email I created in 1995.
The first part of my email has remained unchanged since about then. I’ve gone through various services though. AOL, Earthlink, Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, and now Proton.
I also have a first.last@gmail address I keep for anything more formal (resume).
Bet you get a ton of email intended for other people?
“what is this ‘email address’ it’s asking for”
“dunno, just write your name and then @aol.com”
Last year my email address - [email protected] - was added to the group list for a bunch of old ladies in England. First I was advised of my spot on the flower roster for the church, then I got someone’s holiday photos, a reminder that Gerald’s birthday was on the 9th, a lovely eCard congratulating me on my wedding anniversary… on and on.
I tried deleting them but they kept coming, and I worried about all the cool stuff initialslastname was missing out on. I sent an email to the whole group saying stop it & got a heartfelt apology and promises to correct it, but the emails have kept on coming - they all have me in their address books now. If I wasn’t so lazy it would be a good incentive to move fully to my proton address.
Tmy name is just common enough to never be available anywhere, until Outlook.com addresses were new. Got firstlast@outlook magically. Really just one guy in Australia though it seems that doesn’t realize he’s not getting any of those emails. I figure that his actual email is probably something like first.last@outlook and he misses the dot sometimes.
I have an uncommon but not unique name and I have [email protected]. As far as I know, others with my name usually include a middle initial in their email address but they sometimes forget it. I’ve gotten family event plans, car maintenance reminders, digital receipts, contractor quotes, and even once added to a daycare group (that one I did reach out to the coordinator to let them know and then removed myself from the group).
Unfortunately, my first email address was @geocities.com.
Godspeed, you ugly collection of websites.
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 🫠
Same. [email protected] to be precise.
I made one for both my kids that now I think is silly and I wonder if they’ll ever change it.
My mum also made one for me when i was a kid, I never did change it even like 15 years later.
I did the same thing for my step-kids. firstlast@gmail
I’ve been using the same email address since I was 14
