Samuel
@samuel.fm
ironic how the domain handles system lends authority to an account since you can trust that whoever owns the domain owns the account - and yet the bluesky team themselves don't have one consistent domain: they use bsky.app, bsky.social, bsky.team, atproto.com... makes them way easier to impersonate!
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Samuel
oh and blueskyweb.xyz how could I forget seems like they've set themselves up to *minimize* the benefit of domain handles for them because there's so many official domains to keep track of!
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harry
don't forget the definitely-not-a-cryptocurrency-scam-trying-to-trick-people-into-thinking-they're-affiliated-with-Bluesky-no-sirree account @bsky.global
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Emily Liu
yeah why buy @pfrazees.monster and not @pfrazeee.com to cause real chaos 🤔💡 domains aren’t The Perfect Solution out of the box & on their own, but get us a whole lot closer to people being able to own their identity on the web
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Emily Liu
there’s a larger barrier to impersonation (whatever the cost of the domain is vs just making a new account) and we can couple domain handles with the ability to click into the url straight from your profile 👁️ among other things
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Emily Liu
plus the company will never be able to take your username away from you because they uh, rebranded and now want your username, since you own your domain
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Emily Liu
this is a long answer to say my take is domains will not solve impersonation bc bad actors are infinitely creative, but it’s an added helpful tool in the toolkit :~) and helps give us ownership over our digital identity while we’re at it
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Samuel
Yeah to be clear I’m a massive fan of domain handles and obviously the digital identity benefits are huge. You’ve now aligned yourselves with the problems of identify on the rest of the web, which is a better place to be for sure.
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Samuel
And also I think in terms of official accounts on here it’s pretty manageable as is. I just wanted to muse about the strengths of the handle system and it seems to have turned into Discourse™ which I’m very sorry about :( keep up the good work
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Samuel
You have to go and buy a handle for each impersonation attempt, which would get costly
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Justin Case
I understand now. To your point, it's still very easy to impersonate, on a surface level, someone else. When someone see's a post they think is real, they're typically not going to click thru to verify, see the insulin is now free debacle.
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shreyan (wise)
Fwiw, I think domain identities work really well, but y'all might wanna consider keeping all your domains more consistent ;) What kind of things are you thinking about for future "verification"-type plans? Something web-of-trust-y would probably be a good fit for the decentralized world
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