• huginn@feddit.it
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      13 days 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.

        • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          13 days 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
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            4
            ·
            13 days 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
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            12 days 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.

    • Pandantic [none/username]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      12 days 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. >___>