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!
like I own bsky.london and while I don't pretend to be associated with bluesky pbllc, you could imagine a bad actor might try and pull some sort of trick with a domain like bsky.feedback or bsky.gifts@emily.bsky.team any thoughts on this? Are you worried?
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
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
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
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
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.
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
