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   F-Droid (fdroidorg@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Aug-2023 05:06:54 JST F-Droid

   Unlike Google, F-Droid does not force developers to publicize their name or address information.

   We understand that people have many reasons to develop under another name than their legal one and to keep their personal information private. And that what matters is the trust between user and developer, not private details of their lives.

   For more information on how we designed F-Droid to protect your privacy, see https://f-droid.org/2022/02/28/no-user-accounts-by-design.html.

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     anna (navi@social.vlhl.dev)'s status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2023 21:32:42 JST anna

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     • kgbvax

     @kgbvax @fdroidorg if a user already knows me as navi, and trust me as navi, why would they (against my will) knowing my legal name, help with anything? the repository will still be navi/project-name, the emails on the commits will still be my own (with navi in it, not my legal name), etc etc

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     kgbvax (kgbvax@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2023 21:32:44 JST kgbvax

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     @fdroidorg And how would anonymus "trust between user and developer" work?

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2023 21:34:13 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • anna
     @navi @kgbvax @fdroidorg And that's pretty much because accepting pseudonyms or even just a common name isn't the same as accept anonymity.