Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system

• merdaverse@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Everyone should be able to setup their own domain and mess with DNS records to get a verified account”

  Do you realize how utterly disconnected from reality this sounds?? Technical people that have absolutely not clue on how make good UX for end users is how we got Mastodon in the first place, and why its adoption is abysmal.

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  • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can pay someone to do that for you tho it’s not any different form paying someone to verify you ina centralized way. Its really not that hard.

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    • merdaverse@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is not a “pay for verification” model. Have you even read the article or anything related to it? It is literally not centralized, it’s web of trust.

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• emb@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Far from perfect, but I think it’s good to have a layer that very visibly shows ‘yes, this is the account you want’.

  Domains are a worthwhile addition, but they run into almost the same problem as usernames and handles. Can be made misleading easily - sure, I could often go to the web address and verify it (if they don’t put up a convincing fake site), but that’s much lower visibilty.

  Eg, you can probably register nintendo@nintendoamerico and get it by some folks just as easily as registering the Twitter handle. There’s a payment step to get the domain, but that’s about it.

  The centralization problem you mention is a good point though. It was a fine system, if you felt like you could trust Twitter as a verifier. Today obviously, one could not. But Bsky seems to at least theoretically have a ‘choose your verification provider’ idea in mind, which would (again theoretically) resolve a lot of that issue.

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• pupbiru@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  domain names do that for people with well known domain names, and verification processes do that for people without

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  • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yup. Need something like EV certs to really verify… And that would only make sense if it’s a “no screennames” kind of thing.

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    • pupbiru@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      i think the .id.au domain licensing rules are a pretty reasonable middle-ground:

      www.auda.org.au/…/id-au-domain-names/

      The id.au domain name you choose must match or be an acronym or abbreviation of your first name or family name, or your nickname

      you have to provide ID to register any .au, so you’re verified as a person, and though they don’t pre-check your nickname, AFAIK if there’s a complaint you do have to prove that you’re “known by” that name

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