Yeah, I got my name when gmail was 'invite only' :/

It actually kinda sucks. At any given time I have between 3 and a zillion idiots around the globe who, for months or years on end, keep buying concert tickets, airline/vacation bookings, get job hits, legal firm or health-care notifications ... using my email (jbloggs@gmail.com) instead of (jbloggs999@gmail.com) or whatever variant they actually signed up for, since I got 'just my name' and they keep. forgetting. their. own. bloody. email.

And most of the time this shit is sent from a 'noreply@wherever.net' so I can't even tell them they have the wrong email address. Grrrrrrr.

I made a gmail with my name like 2 years ago, I just have an uncommon name ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I own the domain for my last name (firstname@lastname.countrycode) and get people all the time insisting it can't be my real email. I also own a short domain based on my last name (like last.nm) which is very useful and techy people think it's pretty cool.

And of course, gmail is the only email provider.

(/s)

Sounds good until dozens of people around the world all use it as their email too. So many receipts and job applications. I have enough documents for an Australian with the same name as me, I could easily steal their identity. A 12 year old in England set up an Instagram with my email and I ended up with access to their full account. Also had some fun the time I was included in a maga family email chain.

And here I am, with a firstname@lastname.de address, running my own mail server.

• People sometimes act like this is pure magic
• Some providers only allow popular mail services on signup (fuck those), so I had to set up a GMail address that just redirects to my actual one
• My last name is really hard to spell, so it probably wasn't the best idea, since I always struggle communicating that address verbally

The pain of running this still beats having to deal with a free provider out there that either spams my inbox with their own BS or just skims through the data to serve me ads.

I got my Gmail account because someone gave me one of their early adopter invites LOL.

I have this and the other people with my name give it as their own email address all the time, apparently not understanding that you don’t get the address just for existing.

do you mean the holy grail of

firstname@gmail.com

or the slightly uncommon

firstnamelastname@gmail.com?

“Do not cite the deep magic to me…”

When I was growing up, this was all fields.. gestures towards ocean

I have a somewhat common word as my last name.

My first two initials are 'al', which means "to the" in Italian.

My email is al.lastname@gmail.com

I get Italian train ticket reservation info about twice a year.

First name guy right here. Bow before me, peasants!

I was there when gmail was invented
Was there during the invitation period
Someone picked my preferred name
I ended up with a kinda dumb name
Didn't matter much, because my primary email is a redirect, anyway, and gmail still lets me use those (kudos to them)
Google came up with Google Code (and other services) where your public gmail address is your identity
Nope, fuck off
Glad they died. Shame Github got eaten by Microsoft, but, eh...
Google hasn't really been good at letting people specify their identity, ever since
Yes, this is also a transgender user story, why do you ask?

When gmail was invite I got my name, my ex wife's and both my kid's. I also got a couple of regular words, for other uses. I get a ton of mail for other people with the same last name.

My name is uncommon enough that I can always pick my name everywhere, and when I can't it means I forgot I had an account.

In a galaxy far away...

Naboo was under an attack.

And I thought me and Qui-Gon Jinn

Could talk the federation in

To maybe... cutting them a... little slack.

Kid taking my gmail address: how did they allow you to have a troll name for email address?

I was there when gmail was invented.

I have that for my deadname account, but I had to put a number in my post transition gmail account. I do have firstname@lastname as a personal domain though some sites don't like that.

I currently have my full name on GMail and Proton, but I actually had my first name on GMail when it first launched. As in, if my name was Brian (it isn't (it might be (it isn't))) I had brian@gmail.com. Sold it for £1000.

imagine my luck at joining lemmy.world before they created an affiliates program.

I had firstnameLastname@gmail.com but deleted my account recently.