i’m sorry archive team, but this task is impossible.
I know this is how capitalism works, but on the other hand, when you become infrastructure fuck you you're saddled with that forever. don't like it? consider it an anti-monopoly tactic, if you enclose most of the infrastructure instead of improving the commons, you get to have it drain you dry the rest of your miserable life as a company as part of the trade
can confirm, archive team still hasn't recovered from imgur and dpreview. 2023 is an exceptionally bad year
at this point i fear only lawyers can stop the fire of webandria
may god help us all
yes, I have fastmail and use addresses under domains I own as of two years ago.
no, at least four of those accounts are attached to things that are a huge pain in the ass to change the emails of. I've tried. I'll try fax next.
and you all know the biggest reason for this is actually that some friend of a team lead named greg wants greg@gmail.com to be freed up or whatever
if they started releasing the old usernames for grabs, I could imagine some pretty heinous impersonations occurring
or shit even just cracking into the former tenant's ancient accounts still linked to it
yeah i was just thinking that. identity thieves don't use gmail tho so i think we're safe.
tbh I don't think they'd free the old names for that reason, but they've also made a lot of other questionable decisions, so
I'm sure some VP got to put it on their promo packet, so who's to say if this is bad ?? sundar gained three nickels
in fairness to them, I bet all of those emails about sales you didn't sign up for are poisoning the AI they want to train on email, and trimming dead accounts would remove most of the spam they're unable to count as spam
that honestly makes me wonder if any weird data pipelines will get fucked up subtly by this
