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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.

I’ve gotten that a few times from people, I got mine when it was still in beta. Don’t use it anymore because google, switched to Proton.

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.

I thought it was an April fools gag.

Summer 2005. I have the first letters for my name and middle names and then the full last name dot gmail.com. However, nowadays I use my own domain. Since 2008 i got my own domain dot country code but it was for selfhosting. 4 letters dot country code. Only last three years ago i switch to use it for mail as well. I dont host my inbox, just forwards it.

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?

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

I had to be invited.

In a galaxy far away 🎶

It felt great signing up for loops.Video when it got announced and getting firstname@loops.video

Same here, I signed up immediately. Also had a google phone # for a while, but never used it and I don't think it even works anymore. I think they only created those to gather test data for voice recognition.