Probably but they’ve designated others to do it. Like a trusted organization can verify people. Some of the developers seemed hostile. But who gives a fuck about a blue check anyway? Even before Elon, it was a gag on Twitter that it some fucking moron who interned at Reason or some shit and got a big head about.
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magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
So they’re centralizing their ‘federated’ social media even more.
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 2 days ago
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I don’t want to know who any of you people are. None of us saw anything. And if so much as a squirrel asks, I’m asking for a lawyer.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
[deleted]ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
…Until they suddenly don’t anymore
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
why would they care about this it’s not a monetized feature
Zak@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Sort of. This is apparently done on-protocol so anyone can issue verifications, but they’re only shown in the official client if they’re from BlueSky or someone approved by BlueSky.
A better way to do this would be to let users subscribe to verifiers the way they can labelers. Better still would be for the label to indicate what the verifier has verified about the account, like “nytimes.com says this person is an employee of the New York Times”, which is something labelers can already do.
So I really think they should have just leaned into labelers.