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mccProposal: A Mastodon instance with a True Name Policy. Not legal names. Anyone using their legally assigned birth name will be assumed to be violating the True Name policy and banned. Everyone on this instance is required to set their display name to the Name that would allow the fae, if they exist, to steal your soul
Brody 🚀 Brooks@mcc Think I would really want some end-to-end encryption on the fediverse before I felt safe doing that.
margot@mcc you dont join this instance, but rather find yourself drawn to it more and more until it's too late
Autumn the Red Sage@mcc I'm not joining that ... oh look, a ring of mushrooms! How cool! 🍄 🍄 🍄 🍄 🍄 🧚 😱
Jonathan Clede@mcc If you're offered food or drink on this instance, don't accept it!
mostlysafe@mcc the "if they exist" bit is pushing this into Roko's Basilisk territory
@benleedom I like to be precise
My name is Gloria Actually
Keith Evans@mcc nice try, fae queen.
Ada@mcc Is this instance going to ask for my pronouns and then steal them?
🧙♂️ Julian Invictus ☕@mcc I have a permission slip from my Fairy Godmother to remain exempt from this policy.
Max Harmony@mcc Why would you want to reveal such information?
Hubert@mcc what’s a True Name? And how do I find mine out? (sorry but I’m not up on my fae lore)
@Hubert @mcc can’t remember which folk religion has this but one (or maybe some) of them you’re given two names. One is your everyday name which everyone uses. The other is your True Name, this is a special name that’s only used during special ceremonies and is closely tie to your soul. Knowing a person’s True Name give you power over them (usually in spells) so it’s kept secret
@smileodonicthys @Hubert sorry, I'm a discordian and am only going to act to make it more confusing
@smileodonicthys @mcc a name that tickles my soul … is some one usually aware of that name is for them? Or is it that when it’s called you inexplicably follow?
@overflow 🏳️⚧️
I Forget@Hubert Nice try, fae. I think you'll find the fediverse much more wily to this kind of play-innocent deception you're trying here.
(Forreal, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_name#Folklore_and_literature )
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@epilanthanomai @mcc that’s brilliant. Thank you for sharing.
Rob@mcc complex name policy: your name must include “i” somewhere to ensure it is outside the set \(\mathbb{R}\) and thus is not a real name
Amy (she/her/hers)
Peter Sterne@mcc Seems like a massive security risk. How will you prevent the fae from having access to the instance?
Chris [list of emoji]NICE TRY, PHAE PHISHER!
BoredomFestival@mcc but what about the entities that have True Names so unnatural that merely reading them causes madness, will there be a way for them to participate without destroying the sanity of all other participants
@BoredomFestival I do not see the problem
@mcc @BoredomFestival destroying everyone’s sanity sounds like an asset actually
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Mike J👹🐀 🤘🏻@mcc I won't fall for the old "Tell us your True Name and we'll tell you which 90210 character you are" again.
Grendel@grendel84 @mcc your fairy godmother or wizened midwife who is definitely not a witch whispered it in your ear when you were born and you’ll know your name when a hen crows at the next dawn after a blood moon
Oh shit, my parents own chickens.
Sounds like I'll need to be listening near the coop April 9th 2024.
Pavé Ballistique@mcc sounds like a fae scam to collect souls
vx. redgrave, maid of mind@mcc i can't be part of this, i sadly forgot mine a long time ago
Henry Faber@mcc Don’t tell anyone, but Cutter’s true name is Tam.
DB Schwein
Doctor Butt Stuff@mcc Hah! Nice try, Oberon.
Gil Hova@mcc If my soul has already been stolen, would there be any point to using my True Name?
SweetChuck@mcc I don’t know my “true” name would be various people call me Charles, Charlie, or Chuck and I really don’t have a preference.
Buck Moon@mcc nice try, fae.
Dragon 🐉@mcc Nothing stopping you setting one up 🤔
Alex White@mcc sounds risky!
Pete / Syllopsium
Jules@mcc feels a bit risky though
Adam Ek@mcc @davidgerard it’s a trap!
David Gerard@adamek look, that's not very centrist or balanced of you
Barry Schwartz 🫖@mcc So, in my case, Ben-Zion Baruch.
Bits and gubbins@mcc Haha joke's on them, my True Name doesn't render in Unicode
Lais' la Aksolotlulo@mcc kio estas fae?
Globaltom@mcc In English law, any name you routinely use *is* your legal name. So it will be impossible to not use your legal name.... :-)
Britt 🕉️☮️✌️🏳️🌈🇺🇦@mcc Sounds good to me!👍
Isobel Tuliptree 
@mcc I'm already doing that lol
kb@mcc smh just what a fae would say 
👑 BeckieSueDalton 
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I knew there was a good reason for following you. :)
#BanTheGentry #NeverAgain
hiss hiss pffttttt