Bluesky has a great self-verification system, no checkmark involved. In case someone hasn’t noticed, your username is a domain name, but only nerds use it.
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Syndication@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Isn’t the whole point of the verification checkmark is to make sure nobody impersonate well known people/organizations? I know Twitter eventually turned it into a whole cash grab subscription and ruined the concept, but on most other platforms it isn’t treated like some premium subscription and is just a means of knowing who is who.
joyjoy@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I don’t think anyone impersonating gestapo would post anything worse than they already do, so there’s no damage there
damnedfurry@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You haven’t been on the Internet very long, huh?
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
What ICE is doing is way worse than what happens on the internet…?
damnedfurry@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I see what you mean now; your wording was ambiguous, specifically “do”.
anyone impersonating gestapo would post anything worse than they already do
sounds like you’re saying ‘would post anything worse than they already post’.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Not a new debate at all… xkcd.com/1914/ and the context for that was yahoo.com/…/twitter-suspends-verifying-accounts-g…
I agree that if “verification” is going to be a thing, it should only mean the person or organization is who they claim to be, not imply endorsement of any of their activities.