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SOLVED: After getting spooked turned on 2FA for lemmy.world account, but the code to scan for my Auth app never appeared, the screen refreshed, logged me out, and I can't get back into my account now (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by nostromorises@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Is there anything I can do, or is that account lost forever now? Resetting the password doesn't work (natch). Not a huge deal, but it's upsetting because I was modding a community from that account. Any tips/contacts would be appreciated. Cheers.

*** update: as per commenters suggesting, tried resetting password for that account once again, and I was successfully able to log in, go to my settings, then remove 2FA, and all seems good now

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[-] fzacq9td@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

if you used an email to register you can still recover your account

[-] nostromorises@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

this worked, wasn't working last night, but worked just now was able to log in after resetting password, so to settings, and remove 2FA, thanks

[-] qwet@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

This helped me, thanks!

[-] xantonin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This worked for me. The password reset link will log you in, and you can then disable 2FA and try again.

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