Comment on The Right Has a Bluesky Problem

• todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ah, so exactly like Mastodon.

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• 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?

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  • 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.

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    • SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah, okay, thanks for explaining!

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  • realitista@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It just gives you a checkmark, nothing else AFAIK.

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    • SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thank you for explaining!

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  • 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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