2 by dinkleberg | 0 comments on Hacker News.
(Sorry if the title doesn't make sense, I'm struggling to put a word to the important place that a Gmail account has in most peoples' lives) After seeing some harrowing stories of people having their google accounts banned, I'm increasingly concerned about how important my Gmail account is in my life. Essentially everything digital I have is tied to my Gmail account. Many services even use two-factor auth tied to email, so were I to be locked out, I would be locked out of all of these services. So it got me thinking about what the safest "source of truth" would be if I were to switch away from Google. Privacy is nice but more important is reliability since losing that loses everything. In the ideal world, self-hosting your email would be a good option, but you risk reliability there. It seems to me that the best solution is to use a personal domain rather than an @gmail.com account since if you get google-banned for whatever reason you can just point your DNS at another service. Not completely without risk, it's easy to accidentally uncheck the auto-renew button with your domain provider. But you do have the option to add many years at a time, so it is easy to deal with that.
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