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It seems like mostly personal problems, and if this is not going into detail, whoo I don't know what detail would be: https://vt.social/@lina/11288755018112367

by epcoa 2y ago

It seems like mostly personal problems, and if this is not going into detail, whoo I don't know what detail would be: https://vt.social/@lina/112887550181123672 https://vt.social/@lina/112887550181123672 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W2Vvwg0rwSVb5r4TQ_NmAF8SxIXAHPGEZnELgwS36yE/edit?tab=t.0 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W2Vvwg0rwSVb5r4TQ_NmAF8S... They pretty much straight up confirm the identity of Asahi Lina, so enough with the gaslighting that merely mentioning this (and having a totally reasonable discussion on contributor persona policies and sockpuppeting, which is what this is) is somehow unethical doxxing.

flykespice 2y ago
I mean it was pretty obvious from the get-go when Marcan lent his Twitter account to Asahi Lina to promote their launch day. Who entrusts their account credentials to a stranger?
nialv7 2y ago
i have to admit i tend to get drawn in by dramas like this, it is a fault of mine, but it is what it is. so anyway, i dug into the other party involved in this, i.e. the accused, and it looks like there is more to this story than what Lina lets on in her Google Doc linked here, perhaps there is another side. i am not going to go into details here, but if you are interested, it's not difficult to find her on twitter or bluesky. (and if you do choose to do so, please don't bother her, i don't want to cause her any harm by mentioning her here).
ActorNightly 2y ago
This is @lina, not the same guy in the post. Did I miss something?
- pseudo0 2y ago
  Asahi Lina is almost certainly marcan's vtuber persona. This has been discussed for quite a long time on HN, reddit, etc, especially after he started interacting with his own sockpuppet on GitHub. Dug up my old comment on the issue here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36972907 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36972907 > The project itself is popular, but HN allows people to talk about the fairly compelling circumstantial evidence that Asahi Lina is marcan's alter ego. Per previous discussion, they have /home/marcan and /home/lina on the same box [0], have the same hostname [1], and have similar accents and speaking patterns [2]. Marcan is free to do this, but it's completely bizarre behavior acted out in public which is now impacting the actual Asahi project. Doing v-tubing under a pseudonym is one thing, but maintaining a sockpuppet contributor on a major open source project and pretending to interact with it is a giant red flag. [0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35242010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35242010 [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35238601 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35238601 [2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35238601 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35238601
prmoustache 2y ago
What a weird thing to share online, and more importantly to relay on hn. Shouldn't we be above those kind of childish telenovela shit?

by epcoa 2y ago

flykespice 2y ago

I mean it was pretty obvious from the get-go when Marcan lent his Twitter account to Asahi Lina to promote their launch day. Who entrusts their account credentials to a stranger?

nialv7 2y ago

i have to admit i tend to get drawn in by dramas like this, it is a fault of mine, but it is what it is. so anyway, i dug into the other party involved in this, i.e. the accused, and it looks like there is more to this story than what Lina lets on in her Google Doc linked here, perhaps there is another side. i am not going to go into details here, but if you are interested, it's not difficult to find her on twitter or bluesky. (and if you do choose to do so, please don't bother her, i don't want to cause her any harm by mentioning her here).

ActorNightly 2y ago

This is @lina, not the same guy in the post. Did I miss something?

pseudo0 2y ago
Asahi Lina is almost certainly marcan's vtuber persona. This has been discussed for quite a long time on HN, reddit, etc, especially after he started interacting with his own sockpuppet on GitHub. Dug up my old comment on the issue here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36972907 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36972907 > The project itself is popular, but HN allows people to talk about the fairly compelling circumstantial evidence that Asahi Lina is marcan's alter ego. Per previous discussion, they have /home/marcan and /home/lina on the same box [0], have the same hostname [1], and have similar accents and speaking patterns [2]. Marcan is free to do this, but it's completely bizarre behavior acted out in public which is now impacting the actual Asahi project. Doing v-tubing under a pseudonym is one thing, but maintaining a sockpuppet contributor on a major open source project and pretending to interact with it is a giant red flag. [0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35242010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35242010 [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35238601 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35238601 [2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35238601 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35238601

prmoustache 2y ago

What a weird thing to share online, and more importantly to relay on hn. Shouldn't we be above those kind of childish telenovela shit?