Samuel
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Samuel@samuel.fm· 12 Aug 2023
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
I think I got the tone wrong on this one. It’s not that serious a critique of domain handles - I just wanted to point out the irony of bluesky pbllc lacking a “main” domain that everyone can for sure trust - the closest bsky.app, which works *really really well* as the official announcements account
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Samuel
This impersonation vector always exists no matter what you do. I just think they missed a trick not having one authoritative bluesky domain and then sticking everything on subdomains so you could for sure trust that one root domain - however, that would look uglier than bsky.team, so who cares!
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Rich
What about a symbol for usernames also being linked to a second domain? Like a dns record for you on bsky.team gives you a symbol as a team member whilst still allowing you to use pfrazee.com as your handle?
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