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Quixoticgeek on Nostr: nprofile1q…3nmr0 this whole real name thing really annoys me. I have friends who I ...

this whole real name thing really annoys me. I have friends who I only know by their irc nick. That name is more real to me than any that might be written on their government issues paperwork.

With one of them, when we were all much younger, after a night out having a few beers, I slept on their sofa. The next morning their mother asks "so how do you know James?" Hungover, and not awake, I ask "who's James?" that's how I discovered my friends "real" name. And the only time I've used it