Could my 10 year old SDF account still exist? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 6 months ago by siipale@sopuli.xyz to c/sdfpubnix@lemmy.sdf.org

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I had forgotten about SDF but seeing SDF instance on Lemmy caught my attention. I used to use SDF for a while about 10 years ago and now it would be interesting to see if I have left anything interesting there.

I found my notes from ten years ago so I know what my username was. I don't remember my password though. I tried to log in but to no avail. Is there any way to know whether my account still exists? Do accounts get removed if they're not used for long periods of time?

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[-] me@social.jlamothe.net 1 points 6 months ago

You can run the command finger username@sdf.org to see if an account with that name exists.

[-] murph@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 6 months ago

Does that work for you? I tried it locally, and got no results. I also tried it from a shell on sdf, and also got no results.

[-] me@social.jlamothe.net 1 points 6 months ago

@murph It does. Try finger jlamothe@sdf.org (that's me).

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

lol, you just want to be fingered 🤣

[-] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 months ago

Could my 10 year old SDF account still exist?

Mine does. I finally remembered to log back in and there she is...

Caveat: the hostname had changed; I signed up at lonestar.sdf.org IIRC (no longer extant) and now it is on freeshell.org

I found my notes from ten years ago so I know what my username was

Another caveat: I think usernames were truncated to 8 chars in that time period. Don't know if that's the case now or not, or if extra chars are thrown away anyhow.

this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2024

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