A New Form of Verification on Bluesky

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• cerement@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  ✅ I have not said mean things about Erdoğan

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• magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So they’re centralizing their ‘federated’ social media even more.

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  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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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    • 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.

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  • Zak@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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    • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      …Until they suddenly don’t anymore

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• stefenauris@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t understand why they don’t just use the domain verification which is far more authoritative

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  • simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They do. That said, now that it’s really easy to mask whois data, I would argue that’s a less than perfect solution.

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    • stefenauris@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Good point about that. However still someone has to actually purchase and own the thing and set up the verification all of which is independent from bluesky so it’s a start I suppose.

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• asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They’ll make it paid someday. Trust me guys.

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