• @jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    6818 days ago

    No real reason to be using a hotmail account in this day and age, even less so if you’re a developer of a direct competitor for Microsoft.

    • kadu
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      3418 days ago

      Eh, that’s the problem with email - it’s much harder to change and migrate, because you can’t guarantee others will use your new email, much less find out who somehow still has the old email to send messages to and expects a reply from.

      • @stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca
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        3318 days ago

        This is an argument for having your own domain for emails. There is an annual cost but at least your address isn’t locked to a specific provider sokcd you can change some DNS settings to point at a different mail server.

        • @HowAbt2day@futurology.today
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          918 days ago

          I’ve been with Tuta mail for years now and it just keeps getting better. It’s not free, but I believe that that’s why it’s a good choice. They’ve add the calendar app and are expanding to cloud storage.

        • @Wolf314159@startrek.website
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          518 days ago

          It’s also an argument for not having your own domain for emails, because you may one day loose that domain too, and someone could poach the domain to impersonate you.

      • @jordanlund@lemmy.world
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        618 days ago

        Eh, that’s when you just turn on auto-reply/forwarding and abandon it.

        But of course they need to be able to access it to enable auto-reply. :)

        • @Jason2357@lemmy.ca
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          618 days ago

          This. Don’t ever delete the account because someone will scoop it up and impersonate you. Just set auto reply and log out. Check the terms, you may need to log in every 6 months though. Do that a couple of times at least.

        • @swelter_spark@reddthat.com
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          216 days ago

          This is what I did. I set up autoresponse giving out an address that redirects to my new email address. My parents called me to see if I was hacked. Everyone else just started using the new address.

    • @Limonene@lemmy.world
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      1318 days ago

      What alternative do you recommend that won’t be blocked by Google and Microsoft? I hate Microsoft, but I can’t even sign up for a Google account, and everywhere else I’ve tried is blocked by Google, Microsoft, or both.

      I self-hosted my email from 2006-2021, and do not have the stamina to do that any more.

    • Captain Aggravated
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      518 days ago

      Do they even still issue them? Like prior to ~2007 Hotmail was THE free email to have before Google, like, did it better. But aren’t they issuing outlook.com addresses now?

      • @jordanlund@lemmy.world
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        818 days ago

        Dunno… the last time I dealt with it was someone trying to reach my mom and couldn’t.

        I asked them to verify the address…

        @hotmale.com

        Oh, well there’s your problem!

      • Lka1988
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        518 days ago

        When MS ditched the Hotmail name, they went to their “Live” branding. I have an account with that domain, in addition to my old Hotmail account.

        I wish I held onto my old Yahoo account, but it got so full of spam that it became completely unusable; so I deleted it 🫤

        • Captain Aggravated
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          818 days ago

          Yahoo still exists. Somehow. Apparently the brand is extremely popular in Japan, Yahoo Japan is on the list of top 50 visited websites. IIRC the brand was bought by Verizon, and I have no idea if Yahoo even offers web search anymore.

          • Lka1988
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            18 days ago

            Apparently Yahoo uses Microsoft Bing for their search backend.

            • Captain Aggravated
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              218 days ago

              How the hell are we down to two meaningful web engines and two meaningful search engines?

              There’s Firefox and everyone else, and everyone else uses Chrome.

              There’s Google and everyone else, and everyone else uses Bing.

      • Faceman🇦🇺
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        418 days ago

        I stopped using Hotmail when gmail launched and I was given one of the early invites from a tech relative. I have the welcome email from '04.

        But now I’m looking at moving my emails to a self hosted solution because they have used everything in my >20year email history for Ai and I don’t want that to continue into the future.

    • @Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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      218 days ago

      I just don’t really value email accounts much. I have several and only rarely check them.