I say this as someone who never had a blue tick on Twitter, and never tried to get one: man alive some of you people are weird about blue ticks and perceived social status on the computer, please care about real things
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I wouldn’t see it as a status thing but we have campaigned @cleanuptheinternet.org.uk for users to be entitled to be verified if they wish and to screen out all unverified accounts. Give all users more control if they want it.
I quite enjoy the contortions of one particular "I was big on Twitter yknow" artist of these provinces, who claims it's no big deal but it is clearly the very biggest deal
What could possibly have gone wrong with that! (I got mine shortly after I live tweeted a fire on a train I was on, before I even joined the guardian iirc, so skipped all that stuff)
Problem was that when Xitter did this, blue checked accounts got far, far more exposure. I applied three times and always got rejected. So I had hardly any engagement there.
Obvs having a big follower count was also an advantage - but if you had a lowish one you were always doomed to obscurity because the algorithm said so.
I guess thinking about this seriously, verification is relevant where you had the problem a few months back of politicians joining Bluesky and nobody being sure if they're real or not. Some people got duped by Fake Kemi and I still regularly see people tagging Not Wes Streeting's supposed account
Hands down my favourite thing about mastodon is pretty much every server has a variety of tick emojis including the blue one that you can put in your bio for funsies without spending a penny
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