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without saying how old you are, how old are you? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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i feel like lemmy skews older than the rest of the internet

i also made an anonymous poll because data is cool
https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/fGestKFfPddlgaPA4zOONy4GGq9DBUXoDfS-cqUsaPE/

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[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 months ago

Gmail BETA

[-] huginn@feddit.it 10 points 2 months ago

Gmail account is firstname.lastname and neither of them are rare.

Even though I don't use Gmail anymore I keep that account alive.

[-] stom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago

Fun tip, dots in a Gmail address are ignored, so you can also use firstnamelastname, first.name.lastna.me, or any other combo to receive mail at

[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

Fun fact:

Not all services that use "sign in with google" will respect that, though most will

Backblaze immediately comes to mind as one that always makes me include the dot or it gets pissy

[-] naticus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

When I played with AWS way back before it became the behemoth it is, I used it to simply store a few small things, like my Keepass DB. I then deleted it.

So my fun fact: if you ever had an account with AWS and delete it, you can never use that same exact email again. So I went from lastname.firstname@gmail.com to lastnamefirstname@gmail.com and have had that AWS account for way longer than the original.

[-] stom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago

Yeah that's signing in, so your username must match. There are reasons why you should not use sign in with Google, mostly to do with security and privacy. In which case you can sign up for an account using as many or as few dots as you like.

For just receiving mail this works universally.

[-] huginn@feddit.it 1 points 2 months ago

If someone has the email account password your security is already fucked. If they don't then there's no way to pop your oauth unless the client is shit. If the client is shit you shouldn't give it your credentials.

SSO is not a security vuln.

[-] acetanilide@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah but it used to not be ignored so now me and this random person with my name basically share an email address. We don't get each other's emails all that often somehow. We first chatted years ago when I got an important email for a job she applied for (soon after they started ignoring the dots), and she seemed decent so I didn't change it. Definitely a huge risk but here we are.

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

I had 5-6 letter Gmail accounts

[-] heyoni@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

With 1gb of storage and no ads.

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

And that was like multiple times the previous limits IIRC

[-] heyoni@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Hotmail was like 2 megabytes lol

[-] socsa@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

I still have [religious figure]@gmail.com

The account is completely overrun with spam. And there are about 20 people who seem to think it is their actual email address and I get like legit power bills and stuff on it.

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

I essentially had godXXX but my friend got offended so I changed the password to something random and stopped using it

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

For me, gmail beta in college. Also my first gmail account got banned for sending myself too many invites to make more accounts… to make GameFAQs accounts. >___>

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

… how many accounts did you make? I made a new one every six months or so back then

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

It was probably the frequency. There was a point in time that I was making a bunch of comedic GameFAQs alts, and I probably did too many emails too fast. I didn’t think there would be consequences! Lol

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