Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system
Natanael@infosec.pub 4 days agoDomains only help you verify organizations and individuals you recognize directly.
This verification system also allows 3rd parties (it’s NOT just bluesky themselves!) to issue attestations that s given account belongs to who they say they are, which would help people like independent journalists, etc.
Saleh@feddit.org 4 days ago
Idk. Celebrities and Politicians usually have other vetted channels such as their own website or a website of their ogranization representing them. It should be basic journalistic work to see if their social media links link to the account in question or not.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I’m not seeing the advantage of everyone having to do the same vetting process repeatedly.
Saleh@feddit.org 3 days ago
So it is not given to a centralized authority, that is guided by for profit motives and also does the moderation of its plattform.
Where this can lead was shown with twiiter. The moment the central organization is captured, the central authority will abuse the authentification for its own goals. Then instead of just having to check for the authentification to be reliable you need to question everything that is on that plattform as a whole, which is infinetly more consuming, but also simply impossible.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 3 days ago
This doesn’t appear to be given to a centralised authority. If the authentication process fails then it falls back to the previous method anyway. In reality most people won’t bother to authenticate if it involves any significant work.