small domino: linus torvalds making real name and email address an immutable part of a git commit
large domino: r/rust users doxxing a maybe-trans maybe-plural open source dev

@charlotte wtf

@charlotte oh isn't that lovely

say what you want about svn but at least there you could change your uid maps to reflect your new name

@charlotte i can’t find anything about this

@tauon https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1pnz1iz/bincode_development_has_ceased_permanently/

@charlotte oh that’s extremely fucked

@charlotte >maybe plural
ah

@tauon speculation on our end

@charlotte and ours too

@charlotte adjacent annoyance I've had with rust and others is if you want to publish to crates.io you have to dox yourself in cargo.toml too

@charlotte

Damn that is messed up ngl

@charlotte @tauon wow the comments in that thread are absolutely disgusting, jesus

@novenary @charlotte can’t you use a pseudonym?

@xarvos @charlotte sure but same as git, if you don't have to foresight to use one and then later you want to shed that identity you're screwed because your personal details are out there permanently
if your cargo.toml is in git then you have to rewrite history to fully redact it and that only applies to your own upstream copy
(incidentally this is exactly what happened here, the maintainer of that repo moved it to sourcehut and rewrote history to update authorship at the same time)