20 years ago Gmail revolutionized email. It's time for a new revolution

Re:20 years ago Gmail revolutionized email. It's time for a ... by 2Gkashmiri on Monday April 15, 2024 @11:21AM (#40041757)

I seem to have an old yahoo email that I had set up 2fa about 8 years ago. Recently it logged me out abruptly and wont let me back in. That number is with someone else and they are fearing otp hijacking and have blocked me.

I have a considerable number of accounts liked to that so I am kinda in the soup. Urrrgh.

Is there no standardized way to solve these problems ?

I can give details about the email, recovery number, aliases, settings, last emails I remember

Has no one faced these problems ?

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Re:20 years ago Gmail revolutionized email. It's time for a ... by beeboobaa3 on Monday April 15, 2024 @11:34AM (#40041945)

The only way to solve it is to own your own domain and to make sure that you always pay for it. The catch is that you have to do this from the start.

I'm hopeful that governments will eventually realize how impactful this is, and mandate email provides to implement forwarding services after an account is closed and they have verified your identity, possibly via government ID.

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Re:20 years ago Gmail revolutionized email. It's time for a ... by Beijinger on Monday April 15, 2024 @12:31PM (#40042718)

This is true. But let's face it. I don't know of any self hosted email that is as good as gmail. Maybe fastmail?

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Re:20 years ago Gmail revolutionized email. It's time for a ... by qingcharles on Monday April 15, 2024 @03:12PM (#40044538)

I've used Fastmail for about 20 years now. It is awesome. Gmail is just a backup for me.

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Re:20 years ago Gmail revolutionized email. It's time for a ... by beeboobaa3 on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @09:05AM (#40051394)

That's why I use gmail with my own domain. If they ever fuck me, I can point my MX records at a new provider. I do have to pay them for the privilege of using my own domain, but at least that way I'm not the product.

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Re:20 years ago Gmail revolutionized email. It's time for a ... by qingcharles on Monday April 15, 2024 @03:11PM (#40044531)

There's no solution I've found yet, and I've expended some serious energy in trying to solve it.

I've thought about taking a tent down to Goog HQ and just setting up there and waiting until someone hears me out.

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Re:20 years ago Gmail revolutionized email. It's time for a ... by 2Gkashmiri on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @04:11AM (#40049525)

heck, i live on the other side of the globe (haa, take that flat earthers /s) so i am stuck.

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