I found it curious how hard it is to create a Facebook account now, especially after struggling so much to get an old account deleted years ago.

These large companies seem to be at the point where they don't want any new users anymore. Or at least they can afford to lock some people out.

We should be way more vocal about this so the idea that "everyone has / can make a (google|microsoft|facebook|whatever) account" dies out.

The limit is only enforced in the web interface. You can send from any alias using any third party email client, and on the website you can configure a catchall mailbox and create a rule to filter out the aliases that receive spam.

I think that spending a lot of time typing is likely an architectural problem. But I do see how AI tools can be used for "oneshot" code where pondering maintainability and structure is wasted time.

Vodafone refused to enable dual stack on my DSL connection. I got to pick from either keeping dual stack with CGNAT or completely disabling IPv6 but get a reachable IPv4.

My mobile provider doesn't allow IPv6 connections.

So ironically, to be reachable from everywhere, I had to turn off IPv6.