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.
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.
realitista@lemm.ee 1 month ago
You put a snippet of code on your website.
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Ah, so exactly like Mastodon.
SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 1 month 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 1 month 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.
SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Ah, okay, thanks for explaining!
realitista@lemm.ee 1 month ago
It just gives you a checkmark, nothing else AFAIK.
SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Thank you for explaining!
Whimseymimple@beehaw.org 1 month 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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