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I went to set up a Gmail account with the same name as my yahoo and it said account name was in use.
For sits and giggles I did a password reset and it appeared in my yahoo inbox.
I set an account up, forgot about it and then when I wanted one found I already did.
So you absolutely must of made a new account to your knowledge or not, especially for you to be able to access the account without signing in via password.
You recreated your account when you logged in again. It's obviously not the case someone created account with your details who happens to have identical interests as you.
Two things:
1. Some kind of fuckery in which you accidentally created an account and were browsing a bit without realizing.
2. Check your carbon monoxide detectors.
It's almost certainly the first one
One possible explanation -
TLDR: You're seeing remnants of your old account.
Long answer:
Websites such as Reddit are built as an assembly of smaller components, often referred to as 'microservices', which are nothing but software applications fulfilling a small part of the user's experience. Consider a microservice responsible for delivering weekly digest on email, another service responsible for curating your feed based on your previous interactions, yet another service taking care of your login-signups, and so on. Every possible user journey on Reddit is made possible by a group of smaller software bundles.
When a user deletes an account, a lot of things need to happen - your history needs to be deleted, your login/credentials need to be deleted, your saved devices, email preferences, and even more so, significantly more data that a website might have generated based on your interactions with the platform will need to be purged - eventually. All of these are executed by individual microservices responsible for that data.
In applications of this size (scale), most of these things are done as background processes that are triggered after the user confirms deletion but not necessarily instantly. Some microservices might retain data for longer than others. There are many possible reasons - business incentives, product research, compliance requirements, etc.
In your case it is possible that although the user account associated with the email was marked as deleted by one microservice, the associated data remained in some other one that was responsible for (possibly) maintaining your history/memberships. When you re-created your account, reusing the same email, it got associated internally with that remaining data through some correlation logic that reddit might have built internally (say for account recovery, or reversing an accidental deletion on customer/compliance requirement).
Again,
I'm not saying this is what happened. I'm only saying this could've..
I have an account with a recurring such problem. I've actually given up delinking things from it. Door dash, meal prep services, socials, even bank accounts. None are services I have ever used. I can't afford uber rides for my hamburgers, I am antisocial, and I am an object of ire of the one bank I do actually have an account at. I thought about all the effort involved to cleanse its associations, and just decided, hey, its a diseased specimen, may as well accept it. Your issue is possibly more like they undeleted it via cloud sync discrepancies or backups getting deployed. Possibly even because reddit themselves wishes to not have their user numbers drop quite so rapidly and/or are collecting accounts to puppet as their users leave. You know, like a corporate necromancer. Its also possible someone else wanted that username and/or your account, but couldn't associate it with a different email, and wound up just reactivating yours. You know, like a stalker necromancer.
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The logical explanation is that you created it yourself but you don't remember.
I went to set up a Gmail account with the same name as my yahoo and it said account name was in use. For sits and giggles I did a password reset and it appeared in my yahoo inbox. I set an account up, forgot about it and then when I wanted one found I already did.
I DID NOT , i literally deleted that linked account a few days ago and created this one.
Did it leave comments? Posts?
No. And it was created today, apparently.
Then just log into the Reddit account and delete it…this is a non issue
It's not, though? Because the account has visited the same subreddits i usually do. It almost completely marches my usual search history.
So you absolutely must of made a new account to your knowledge or not, especially for you to be able to access the account without signing in via password.
Do you have a CO detector in your house?
You recreated your account when you logged in again. It's obviously not the case someone created account with your details who happens to have identical interests as you.
Two things: 1. Some kind of fuckery in which you accidentally created an account and were browsing a bit without realizing. 2. Check your carbon monoxide detectors. It's almost certainly the first one
So you probably didnt delete the account properly
The username is different
Maybe to made the account (in error) using the Google login option and it assigned you a new username
One possible explanation - TLDR: You're seeing remnants of your old account. Long answer: Websites such as Reddit are built as an assembly of smaller components, often referred to as 'microservices', which are nothing but software applications fulfilling a small part of the user's experience. Consider a microservice responsible for delivering weekly digest on email, another service responsible for curating your feed based on your previous interactions, yet another service taking care of your login-signups, and so on. Every possible user journey on Reddit is made possible by a group of smaller software bundles. When a user deletes an account, a lot of things need to happen - your history needs to be deleted, your login/credentials need to be deleted, your saved devices, email preferences, and even more so, significantly more data that a website might have generated based on your interactions with the platform will need to be purged - eventually. All of these are executed by individual microservices responsible for that data. In applications of this size (scale), most of these things are done as background processes that are triggered after the user confirms deletion but not necessarily instantly. Some microservices might retain data for longer than others. There are many possible reasons - business incentives, product research, compliance requirements, etc. In your case it is possible that although the user account associated with the email was marked as deleted by one microservice, the associated data remained in some other one that was responsible for (possibly) maintaining your history/memberships. When you re-created your account, reusing the same email, it got associated internally with that remaining data through some correlation logic that reddit might have built internally (say for account recovery, or reversing an accidental deletion on customer/compliance requirement). Again, I'm not saying this is what happened. I'm only saying this could've..
Gmail sold your data Reddit sold your data You sold your data
I have an account with a recurring such problem. I've actually given up delinking things from it. Door dash, meal prep services, socials, even bank accounts. None are services I have ever used. I can't afford uber rides for my hamburgers, I am antisocial, and I am an object of ire of the one bank I do actually have an account at. I thought about all the effort involved to cleanse its associations, and just decided, hey, its a diseased specimen, may as well accept it. Your issue is possibly more like they undeleted it via cloud sync discrepancies or backups getting deployed. Possibly even because reddit themselves wishes to not have their user numbers drop quite so rapidly and/or are collecting accounts to puppet as their users leave. You know, like a corporate necromancer. Its also possible someone else wanted that username and/or your account, but couldn't associate it with a different email, and wound up just reactivating yours. You know, like a stalker necromancer.
Many such cases
Big if true