From a thread on Bluesky:
If we’re being honest the “use your own domain to verify your account” thing is some mastodon shit— Dave Levitan (@davelevitan.bsky.social) Nov 22, 2024 at 4:50
To which I have replied:
Yes, but partially good shit.
Note that @bsky.app requirement is harder than the #Mastodon one. For Bluesky verification you must truly own a domain (or bribe the IT staff), for Mastodon it’s enough to have use of it. Domain verification is very useful for domain holders.
https://bsky.app/profile/jaxroam.bsky.social/post/3lbj73jzrqs2s
Of course this is not the function of old Twitter (account of a notable person or institution) or X. Twitter notability has an overlap with @wikipedia.bsky.social notability, we could imagine an extension of the “Website” category, but the self-editing nature of #Wikipedia might not serve either.
(Tellingly, the @wikimedia.bsky.social accounts are not verified, no way to tell if they are authentic) Either way solves the #MichaelMann issue, is it @michaelemann.bsky.social the climate scientist or the film maker not yet on Bluesky?
Nor the migration issue, either from one platform (e.g. X or Bluesky or Mastodon) to another, or changing from an account to the next on the same platform. Is it the same user? If we followed the old one, can we smoothly follow the new? Or multiple accounts:
What’s more, there doesn’t seem to be any integration between this WordPress implementation and Mastodon any more, and no integration with Bluesky posts. For that reason I end this post here. To be continued?
