Post #4074195
2026-07-16 10:19 UTC
@jexner@tooting.ch Can the human be anonymous while the "dev" is public? Clearly, we want the apps we use to be maintained by entities that we can trust. Are given names required for that? I think clearly not. For example, non-profits. People trust #EFF as an entity, even without knowing who everyone works there is, and whether the staff changes. So the entity can be trusted separately from human participants. I think developers are similar. Many trusted FOSS contributors operate under pseudonyms
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@jexner@tooting.ch 2026-07-16 10:22
@eighthave@social.librem.one Fully agree! I guess it is somewhat difficult for an independent dev to do the scaffolding needed, but as long as you build "small" software, it may not have to be as complex as creating an organisation. Is the question then simply: how do we know which "entities" are trusted and how do we make sure, a particular piece of code is "from that entity"?