Comment on The Right Has a Bluesky Problem
realitista@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoI use both and Mastodon is missing a lot of the quality of life features of Bluesky.
- Good user verification
- Add lists
- Block lists
- Subscribable topic feeds
- Configurable algorithms
These things make Bluesky very easy to get started with and more powerful even than Xitter was. It’s simply a better product if you have any requirements other than federation.
I wish it were otherwise, but that’s just the way it is.
SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
How is user verification done?
realitista@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
You put a snippet of code on your website.
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Ah, so exactly like Mastodon.
SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
And if you don’t have or perhaps want a website?
Does verification do anything?
Does it create haves and have nots?
Kichae@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It does nothing. Verification is only important in general for public individuals, anyway. Public officials, celebrities, etc. Those people have the means to do it. They also have the means to host their own instance on their own domain, or on a government domain, which is even better verification of identity.
But most of us do not need to give a damn.
realitista@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
It just gives you a checkmark, nothing else AFAIK.
Whimseymimple@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
It doesn’t really do anything other than (potentially) verify someone or an organization really is who they say they are. It probably matters most for well-known folks or orgs that you need to know are real. One example is how confused people are about Mark Hamill, who did move over to Bsky, because there are so many impersonators.
Another example is the US Consumer Product Safety Commission. I can verify they are who they say (and trust their posts, hilarious or not) because they’ve used their gov site to verify their account.
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