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    15 hours ago

    > Find out I missed the deadline for Microsoft migration and the account is gone forever

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      That’s what I expected, but no. Greentext tells an old story

      It didn’t hurt me but fuck Microsoft. How hard would it be to keep the migration system running? 3 years is nothing for this sort of game, loads of people had the game as kids and stopped playing during several years of higher education only to find they’ve lost their name

      My main name is this one (psud) which I’ve had from before Minecraft 1.0 and I was happy to get it when I got Minecraft in 2011. I would be so sore if I had to use my 10 letter name (which I pulled psud out of) or something with numbers just because a corp gave a short deadline

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          That’s another one. I had a YouTube account under the longer name I took this name from, I signed up to it with my Gmail.

          My Gmail was in my real name.

          So Google in an effort to fix bad behaviour in YouTube comments switched everyone with a YouTube account and a Google account to the name on the Google account.

          So all comments I had made as pseudopsud were suddenly reattributed to the name the local government knows me by.

          I work for the government and there are things I’m not allowed to say, subjects I’m not allowed to talk about. I’m less careful when using a pseudonym, so I was really unhappy to be unmasked, only mollified by the fact that YouTube comments can’t be searched

          I can’t migrate my old YouTube account, migration was forced on me.

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            I forgot how it works exactly, but I’m pretty sure when google was doing that I created a brand account(?) and linked my channel to it, something like that, putting them behind a nickname while preserving the entire history. I don’t remember the exact process, but nothing really changed for how I use YouTube, except I get to use a nickname.

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              I don’t know whether I carelessly clicked a “link accounts” button. I may have. I felt and feel that my name was changed without my explicit permission

              On the good side, several YouTubers respect real name commenters on live streams more than pseudonymous ones

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                Sorry, you misunderstood - the change was forced, it’s not what I’m referring to. I don’t remember the exact way it worked, but I’m pretty sure they were pretty explicit about what the change is, at least.

                What I’m saying is, you can go back to using your own nickname - I don’t remember the exact process used, but I think the trick was to create a “brand account”, which is basically an additional identity tied to your account, move everything to that identity, and use it instead of your private identity with your real name.

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    Not to get too real on a green text sub, but I keep a gift tag in my wallet that my mom gave me years ago. Its just a small thing that says “To [my name], Love Mom”. I don’t even remember what gift it was from but I cherish that tag. Save the little things like that if you can, It will mean more to you than you know later.

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    15 hours ago

    Fake: anon has a good relationship with his mom

    Gay: anon has… friends? This one’s a bit of a stretch.

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      If your mum is a good one, keep in contact. Write and phone often if you’re far away, visit often if you’re near. You only have them for a while. People don’t live long enough. :'|