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Re:Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work by Ataraxiaist on Sunday February 20, 2022 @07:07AM (#30405088)
The current alternative to me is a form of digital Epicureanism or digital Stoicism in the sense of intentionally not putting any effort into any kind of online digital presence or content creation.

I don't remember anyone being upset if they changed emails and started posting on usenet from a different email address. The discussion at hand was what was important.

People are ultimately causing themselves all this stress and worry over absolutely nothing. All these make believe missed opportunities if you don't put in all this effort to get one of the lottery tickets.

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Re:Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work by novok on Sunday February 20, 2022 @02:38PM (#30408574)
It's not about your posting identity, but missing important communications that was sent to an old address. Now your email is your authentication second factor in many cases, it's also lockout prevention.
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