Post #1130067

2026-04-06 22:49 UTC

I've had a Google account since I was old enough to have one. I've been using my email to make so many accounts for years. How does one just move to something else when what yiu already have is so deep into your other stuff?

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@CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-04-06 23:02

Gotta do it one by one. It's taken years, but now most of my stuff is off of Gmail. It's to the point where if my Google account got closed, I wouldn't miss much. I wouldn't even lose my emails that I care about since I've done multiple Takeouts.

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@ttyybb@lemmy.world 2026-04-06 22:55

One step at a time.

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@FatVegan@leminal.space 2026-04-07 07:07

Same. I made a new email, and every time i had to log in or something, i looked into changing the email of said account one by one. It wasn't really all that bad

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@sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 2026-04-06 22:53

it's a process. by now you're probably using at least one for doing 2 factor authorization with the other. to migrate you have to create a 3rd and go through all your accounts authorizing a login then changing the 2fa account. I'd say it's probably easier if you have a password manager app, then you can at least let it autofill login info and use it like a checklist to work your way through. Those are obviously their own kind of baggage though

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