#nymwars — Public Fediverse posts

@lina I'd agree that you shouldn't have a single identity online, because you don't have a single identity offline, either.

Nobody "is the same person" while cuddling in bed with their spouse as when their boss says "come to my office", just to take a couple of examples.

Here's something I wrote back when Google Plus existed, and was trying to enforce a "real names" policy (or back during the NymWars, for those who remember that word…): https://kagan.mactane.org/blog/2011/07/17/how-many-identites-does-a-single-person-have/

#identity #NymWars

@anime_reference a technical marvel that was mismanaged to hell

the death knell was when they added a real name policy and the whole #nymwars thing happened

@floreani #NymWars redux (redux(redux…)) 🤦‍♀️😕

You know who else has noticed that this is all about to turn into another episode of #nymwars? @pluralistic, natch.

Please enjoy his thread on the subject, complete with a detour into Eastern European Jewish immigration, a subject near and dear to my heart: https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/02/nonbinary-families/#red-envelopes

@parisba judging by the "required" on both the First and Last Name fields, I guess mononymic people aren't welcome. :(

#nymwars

@meena Looks like #mononym folx are fucked too.

The #nymwars never end, do they?

@Xenophrenia
possibly by my wallet name :)
https://web.archive.org/web/20190308043152/https://plus.google.com/112064652966583500522

Not sure if you followed me back, but I think I've had you in my contacts since the #Nymwars megatopic by Yonatan Zunger. :)

This is how #Niantic's game #HarryPotterWizardsUnite currently enforces their poly-nymic #namingPolicy:

https://mastodon.social/media/0Pyd858eb5E5jRP7vH0

Mind you, these name fields are *optional*, and (supposedly) aren't even stored on their servers, so it makes even less sense for them to enforce any rules for them, and not just use a single 'display name' field.

#UX #nymwars

Let's see if this #Feedback submitted through #Niantic's support bot for #HarryPotter #WizardsUnite will make their #MinistryID #namingPolicy more inclusive by allowing the use of a #mononym without workarounds such as including a period.

#HarryPotterWizardsUnite #HPWU #Nymwars #mononyms #mononymous #names

@Algot
I'm surprised I haven't seen #mononym mentioned yet. Especially since registration forms often assume that people have a first name and last name, making it rather difficult for them to register with their preferred or even actual name.
(This was a major issue in the early days of #GooglePlus for instance, which made #nymwars a rather trending topic.)

@Bluedepth
could also be #Niantic's first game, #Ingress. Though Ingress Agents tend to only look at their scanner app at the actual portals, as there's nothing to do in between locations.

Btw @cj, you can choose a (public) username, as well as a (private) wizard name. Looks like Niantic hasn't learnt from the #Nymwars though, as your wizard name needs to consist of a first and last name. You can change it freely though, by the looks of it.

@Taweret what about Mononym for Prez?🤔 #nymwars
;)

How to leverage #WebID using #Facebook as your Identity Provider (#IdP): . #LinkedData #Identity #Nymwars #Privacy