Samuel
lotta strong feelings about the checkies, as expected—broadly positive once people get how it works! imo the Bluesky app is an opinionated lens of an open network, and this additional editorial trust layer is a strong compliment to the more objective domains layer. I love that we’re building…
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✿ damir
is there a more technical explanation of how verification works on the protocol layer? the blog post is pretty short and doesn't give any info on this
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Fruity Koala 🎄
I imagine it would be centralised and not part of atproto. Would cause absolute chaos if another website on atproto could create verified users that sync to the protocol. Just means verified badges won’t show on other sites which is good imo
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Samuel
not true at all
Samuel@samuel.fm· 22 Apr 2025
users can publish verification records, which point to an account and include a handle and displayName (so if you change your name it gets invalidated) bsky.app chooses which verification records it wants to display, which is currently the limited set of Trusted Verifiers
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Fruity Koala 🎄
Ok. So going back to my previous point, does BlueSky not have total control of verification here then? If users can’t select which service to use for verification and BlueSky has to confirm ‘trusted verifiers’ then it’s not decentralised.
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Samuel
@samuel.fm
by confirm, this just means we’ll check for impersonation/obviously incorrect cases. The system doesn’t require bsky.app to sign off on every bluecheck It is under our control, yes, because it’s a editorial decision the app is making to display certain users as trustworthy
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Fruity Koala 🎄
Hi, Just wanted to apologise for me misunderstanding. I get it now :) Would love to see BlueSky allow users to choose their verification accounts like @Deer.Social supports
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