I miss yahoo answers.

I’ve had my Hotmail account since 1999 when I was in high school and it still works well enough. It’s what 99% of my accounts or web presence is tied to. I still occasionally get emails from old friends or forum members I haven’t heard from in years who only know me at that address.

I’ve spent (to me) a significant amount of time getting the folder structure, auto-sorting rules, and junk mail filters set up the way I like them. I just can’t be arsed to do that all over again for some new address that will also be considered uncool in a few years time.

I do have a couple more ‘professional’ emails, like first.last@respectableprovider.com, but they just forward to my Hotmail account anyway.

Meh, I don’t particularly use it anymore, but I’ve had my Yahoo account for over 20 years, before GMail even existed. My account there still works, but I gave up on actually using them after they shut down Yahoo Groups.

My username on Yahoo is the same as here on Lemmy. Feel free to email me, I’ll promptly never check my email LOL!

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Why not?

TBC, I don’t use the MSN homepage or the Yahoo! homepage. I go directly to the email account.

I mean, should I change just to change and not be associated with what “old people” use?

Sure, I could use Proton (guess what, I do! You can have more than one mail account!) but all the contacts I know and all my accounts are tied to the old mail address. Some of the people are older and getting them to change my contact info is more pain than it’s worth. I’m not going through all the accounts and dealing with the change of email, 2FA emails, and likely password change demands. Despite my account being under the prying eyes of Big Data, they’re stable. Odds are my account will still be operating in a decade, and using a newcomer comes with the possibility that they’ll disappear or just be bought up by Big Data.

I’ve had a Yahoo account since 1995 (I think) and I still use it today… For signing up for things that I don’t care to receive spam from on my main account.

Why not?

Yahoo is legitimately still a big deal in Japan, I was surprised to find out recently

Hotmail just evolved into outlook, I know a few people who still use it

My dad is the only person I have come across in at least a decade who still uses his AOL email address

I don’t care. It’s an email system. Yahoo is what my whole family knows and it is exactly the same for me as my Gmail.

Yahoo brought the company that hosted my email back then when they had plenty of money, and I never had a reason to stop using it.

I also have a gmail, that is completely unusable compared to it. And an email in a domain registered to me. But from those 3, the only one I don’t use regularly is the gmail.

Yahoo for my spam, the commercial emails. It makes me feel a million years old, but I don’t feel like changing them.