That’s how you know that the account @nytimes.com on Bluesky belongs to the real The New York Times publication, for example. However, Bluesky believes that custom domains may only be part of the solution around verification going forward. “And they can choose to trust us — the Bluesky team’s verification — or they could do their own. While Bluesky itself could choose to focus on verifying high-profile users, others could build verification systems that would vet people for other criteria. For example, Graber suggested that a university could verify users as alums, or a fan group like the Swifties could verify people as community members.

Source: New York Times November 26, 2024 18:43 UTC