Comment by jacoblambda

3 years ago

Whenever there is news regarding one of the members of the Asahi Linux team or their contributions, people write a bunch of really shitty comments trying to dig up the identity of that participant who very clearly does not want their real name associated with that identity or the project.

That and in the beginning there were a lot of very negative "they didn't really write that. someone else must have done the hard work for them" type comments as well.

So as a response the team wanted to just stop their stuff from showing up on HN but then the noreferrer thing happened and now we are here.

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wlesieutre  3 years ago

Oh, about the main developer being a vtuber? I can imagine people being shitty about that, but I always read through the Asahi posts when I see them and I've yet to see it come up here.

  • ladberg  3 years ago

    Not just being a vtuber, but outing them as an alter ego of marcan. Not exactly the nicest thing to do on HN's part (and I'm probably complicit by posting this comment), but also the information is already "out there" and blocking HN to keep it under wraps isn't a great strategy.

    • mfalcao  3 years ago

      If that is actually him and he doesn't want to be associated with that persona then making this video [0] was a weird choice... But in any case it seems natural that people are curious about this, after all it's a popular project and listing virtual avatars as members is strange.

      At this point he should probably just own it if it is indeed him.

      [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=effHrj0qmwk

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    • wlesieutre  3 years ago

      Well that's not at all what I expected when I saw "harassment" accusations thrown around. Bummer for them if somebody caught on to their alter ego, but also a dick move to take it out on an entire community who happen to use the same website.

      One way or the other I'm going to continue not caring who Asahi Lina is.

    • uberman  3 years ago

      Wait, so this is about a virtual avatar identity project leader possibly being the alter ego of one of the other project leads?

      I just naturally assumed that to be the case after doing a search on "Asahi Linux" as I knew nothing about that project.