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I managed to get myself temporarily locked out of a 10+ year old gmail account 2 months ago. I managed to get it back easily (finding my old phone sim and resetting). But it was a traumatic experience. I signed up for Fastmail that day and did a complete download of all data. I'm still in the migration phase (which is a pain), but I'm aiming to go completely gmail free for the rest of my life. I implore anyone readin…
Another option is to control the domain. That is what I recommend for any account that is used to make money in any way. In the event you have a dispute with your email host, you can simply change the domain MX records. You may lose a few hours or a couple days of email, but your name doesn't disappear out of thin air.
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I managed to get myself temporarily locked out of a 10+ year old gmail account 2 months ago. I managed to get it back easily (finding my old phone sim and resetting). But it was a traumatic experience. I signed up for Fastmail that day and did a complete download of all data. I'm still in the migration phase (which is a pain), but I'm aiming to go completely gmail free for the rest of my life. I implore anyone readin…
Free email is fine. Just make sure to own your own domain and MX records. Worst case you switch to somewhere else and keep on mailing.
My rational is to align my interests with the company running the infrastructure for a fundamental component of my digital life.
Free email is fine most of the time. Until it's not. I want to limit my "until it's not" exposure.
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Nothing other than Google is obsesed with automating things with half baked machine learning solutions and thinking they don't need a service desk with humans. Other companies automate a lot but its way easier to get to a person. Twitter, Facebook, Amazon - they will all get back to you in under 48 hours and actually undo what the machines have done.
Well, maybe not Twitter? I've used their hidden platform team contact form about 4 times and I've never heard a response from them. I say hidden because there's a hard to find page that lists all of the contact forms, except the platform contact form isn't on there. You just kinda of... have to know it exists somehow.
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Do you know what censorship means? It’s quite literally the textbook definition (explicitly blocking books because of the ideas in them) so I’m curious what you think censorship is. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/censorship
Would you also say if I were to ask you to leave my house because I got tired of listening to you, I'd be infringing on your free speech rights? Is that different than me removing your book from my store?
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> bookstore refusing to carry books by certain authors is in no way censorship It’s fucking textbook definition of censorship. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/censorship Are you conflating “government censorship” with censorship?
What do you think the alternative is? You want the government to mandate that every book store carries all books? Book stores have a right to curate their selection as they see fit in exactly the same way that authors have a right to write what they see fit.