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‘I think using real name = authentic is too simplistic and boring.

When you talk like this you locate authenticity at the level of the identity.’

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/pseudonyms-and-agency

from a database theory aspect, nyms have greater uniqueness... like, if you just count the combinations, for all lower case 11,881,376 (same if all are upper) and for mixed case 380,204,032 which is a really lot of very memorable distinct names, let's say that 10% of those are intelligible

because "real names" sometimes are ambiguous this is a problem from this perspective, and partly why most social network systems rely on conflict free identity numbers as primary keys in databases

that is just in terms of practicality for the systems, the matter of being "autonomous" also has a big part in this, thus the conversation about agency - autonomous literally means self-defining as well as self-directing, and taking on a nym is an act of self definition

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halalmoney 1y ago

Thank you. What an insightful comment.

https://nostrcheck.me/media/637a2f1da5d2fc1976c14ec00f8eae4015afe99bb2554f1d537d0086a169dd8f/384a09ece2bfc02e79391acdce94411c3418e8b0cb72ab34ed11a7956ef43693.webp

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

yup, it's a conflict free scheme of reference for humans

there is, however, at least one other mleku, ukrainian, apparently... and i used to go by elfspice but i think due to my work i wound up with impersonators long after i quit that scene... a name that was unique was l0k1 but too short for many name constraints, and i adopted that name to disambiguate myself from other usernames for mention tagging on IRC

perhaps i should slightly modify my handle to improve its distinctiveness

would be a bit of a hassle at this point to do it with my key but maybe warming up for when nostr finally has a succession protocol