On Friday, 12 April 2019 08:17:55 CEST Eike Hein wrote: > Pseudonyms don't jive with that for me. Someone not entrusting me with > their real name feels regressive vs. our current community standards. > It's a bit uncomfortable.
I trust you with my real name. Not with my legal name. That's only for the authorities, and only because it's very difficult and expensive (and perhaps not even possible because I don't have any officially sanctioned reasons) to change one's name in the country I live in. I don't feel my name is a "pseudonym" even though it's not the one on my government ID. I've declined participating in some projects (not KDE) because they required a legal name. I'm not known by mine in any context that matters to me, and though I wouldn't be in any actual danger by using it, I'd only be (a) uncomfortable and (b) unrecognisable. I hardly recognise it myself in any non- official context; it doesn't describe what I think of as "me". The situation is worse for people who *are* in danger from using their legal name; even if they're not doing anything illegal, sometimes it's best to keep the name on one's government ID to oneself and use a different one to interact with the world. This need not be a nickname! (I have several different nicknames, none of them being "Irina Rempt".) Irina -- Vesta veran, terna puran, farenin. Beghinnen can ick, volherden will' ick, volbringen sal ick. Blog: https://valdyas.org/irina/fo3 Books: https://valdyas.org/irina/books/
