Meta: Why 'kde contributor' and not 'kde identity'?

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I noticed that this discourse forum supports logging in with kde identity.

But what i’m confused about is: why is it called kde contributor? why not call the button ‘kde identity’?

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Anyone from KDE know why this is?

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Hi - I don’t personally know how that was landed on, but as an outsider - I’d assume because while it’s technically called “KDE Identity”, what it functionally represents is the account that folks use to actively contribute to KDE projects via GitLab, etc.?

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True, but I feel like it’d be the same as if for ‘signing in with apple id’ had a button called ‘sign in for apple device users’. It’s just apple-id that the name of the sign in service.