That's their choice, don't try to pressure them to self-dox. What is wrong with you / the "JJ Discord server"? Please identify yourself and everyone there so I can be sure to up my paranoia around each of you.
That's their choice, don't try to pressure them to self-dox. What is wrong with you / the "JJ Discord server"? Please identify yourself and everyone there so I can be sure to up my paranoia around each of you.
I think you misunderstood. I didn't ask for their name. Luckily the author didn't seem to misunderstand.
As for information about me, you can search the internet for my username. Let me know if you don't find anything and I can try to help. I'm not going to share information about others on the Discord server.
I think you're a person behaving in a very socially harmful way, purportedly representing a group of such people. I think this based on the actual words you wrote. You're not behaving harmfully because you don't want to use software without the author's dox, you can have any preferences you like, but because you think your desire not to use it without the author's dox gives you any standing to impose demands on another person.
"I didn't ask for their name" is a ridiculous reply. You asked for some unspecified degree of personal information. Luckily the author didn't bow to your pressure but just said "I'm a software developer", which we already knew because of the developed software.
Why don't I have standing to demand people's dox as some random idiot Internet commenter? Answer this question and then turn your answer around on yourself. Then, maybe, apologize? Or don't, if you have some other way to psychologically ensure you won't go around demanding people's information in the future.
Maybe there's some other subtext here that I'm completely unaware of, but based on what I've read here, I gotta say that this is an impressive level of hostility, even by internet standards.
The post also mentions this is only a problem because of closed source, I think "I want to keep my government identity private, but here's the source code" would be a fair compromise.
If one wants to be extra "there's nothing up my sleeve" they could also publish instructions for how to do reproducible builds for the compiled artifacts (which does require publishing the source code however).
Nobody is pressuring anyone. GP is free to ask and OP is free to decline.