The ActivityPub spec is finally updated! No more deadname, it says "Christine Lemmer-Webber"!!! w3.org/TR/activitypub/

Thank you @rhiaro for poking the right people to make this happen :)

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@cwebber

Great, now you can get that Nobel Prize you deserve :)

I am curious if its common when someone changes their name to retroactively get it changed on past publications. Seems like a nightmare for librarians honestly.

@rhiaro

@freemo @rhiaro well there's a difference in feasibility between updating a name in digital repositories which effectively publish that document every time it is viewed and dead-tree formats where you need to seek out and revise old documents

I still have the Open Source Award I won and an article above my desk about Liberated Pixel Cup. Both have my old name. I live with it... but since AP is a major part of my legacy and it *can* be changed, I'm happy it is

@cwebber

I am happy for you as well. It is just as a tech guy I wonder about the nightmare of indexing and searching and all that jazz. I suppose in the long run it may not matter much once the search engines catch up.

@rhiaro

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