Proposal: 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
@mcc Think I would really want some end-to-end encryption on the fediverse before I felt safe doing that.
@mcc you dont join this instance, but rather find yourself drawn to it more and more until it's too late
@mcc I'm not joining that ... oh look, a ring of mushrooms! How cool! ๐Ÿ„ ๐Ÿ„ ๐Ÿ„ ๐Ÿ„ ๐Ÿ„ ๐Ÿงš ๐Ÿ˜ฑ
@mcc If you're offered food or drink on this instance, don't accept it!
@mcc the "if they exist" bit is pushing this into Roko's Basilisk territory
@benleedom I like to be precise

@mcc

The server:

๐Ÿ„๐Ÿ„๐Ÿ„
๐Ÿ„ ๐ŸŒบ๐Ÿงšโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿ„
๐Ÿ„ ๐Ÿงšโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿงโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿงšโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ„
๐Ÿ„ ๐Ÿฅ€๐ŸงŒ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ„
๐Ÿ„๐Ÿ„๐Ÿ„

@mcc nice try, fae queen.
@mcc Is this instance going to ask for my pronouns and then steal them?
@mcc I have a permission slip from my Fairy Godmother to remain exempt from this policy.
@mcc Why would you want to reveal such information?
@mcc whatโ€™s a True Name? And how do I find mine out? (sorry but Iโ€™m not up on my fae lore)
@Hubert @mcc canโ€™t remember which folk religion has this but one (or maybe some) of them youโ€™re given two names. One is your everyday name which everyone uses. The other is your True Name, this is a special name thatโ€™s only used during special ceremonies and is closely tie to your soul. Knowing a personโ€™s True Name give you power over them (usually in spells) so itโ€™s kept secret
@Hubert @mcc hopefully a pagan or Wiccan will jump in and clear this up
@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 โ€ฆ is some one usually aware of that name is for them? Or is it that when itโ€™s called you inexplicably follow?
@smileodonicthys @Hubert @mcc Ah, so your social security number, I understand now.

@overflow @Hubert @mcc the drunker I get the more true this statement feels

Itโ€™s a magical social security number except you donโ€™t get money from it when you retire

@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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True name - Wikipedia

@epilanthanomai @mcc thatโ€™s brilliant. Thank you for sharing.
@mcc complex name policy: your name must include โ€œiโ€ somewhere to ensure it is outside the set \(\mathbb{R}\) and thus is not a real name
@simrob @mcc what if my true name is โˆš-1
@mcc Seems like a massive security risk. How will you prevent the fae from having access to the instance?
@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 everyoneโ€™s sanity sounds like an asset actually
@mcc hiding in plain sight now, are you?
@mcc I won't fall for the old "Tell us your True Name and we'll tell you which 90210 character you are" again.

@mcc

How does one go about discovering their true name?

Is there an API for that?

@grendel84 @mcc your fairy godmother or wizened midwife who is definitely not a witch whispered it in your ear when you were born and youโ€™ll know your name when a hen crows at the next dawn after a blood moon

@smileodonicthys

Oh shit, my parents own chickens.
Sounds like I'll need to be listening near the coop April 9th 2024.

@mcc

@mcc sounds like a fae scam to collect souls
@mcc i can't be part of this, i sadly forgot mine a long time ago
@mcc Donโ€™t tell anyone, but Cutterโ€™s true name is Tam.
@henryfaber @mcc
That's a deep cut... I mean, not for anyone who recognizes it, but 40+ years! Ack.
@mcc If my soul has already been stolen, would there be any point to using my True Name?
@mcc I donโ€™t know my โ€œtrueโ€ name would be various people call me Charles, Charlie, or Chuck and I really donโ€™t have a preference.
@mcc Nothing stopping you setting one up ๐Ÿค”
@mcc feels a bit risky though
@mcc @davidgerard itโ€™s a trap!
@adamek look, that's not very centrist or balanced of you
@mcc So, in my case, Ben-Zion Baruch.
@mcc Haha joke's on them, my True Name doesn't render in Unicode
@mcc In English law, any name you routinely use *is* your legal name. So it will be impossible to not use your legal name.... :-)
@mcc I'm already doing that lol
@mcc smh just what a fae would say 

@mcc
I knew there was a good reason for following you. :)

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