We absolutely should perpetuate an aura of fear for the check mark. Like a black-spot or whatever that pirate trope is but instead it's just social media exile
The only reason Tumblr is still up is because releasing the users into the rest of the internet would be the closest thing the series of tubes would get to an ecological disaster.
Honestly I hope it's not like Twitter's where you just buy and that's it, I hope there's some sort of process that makes seeing a verified person actually make you think "oh this is something I can actually trust in some regard" or at least "oh this is the actual person I'm talking to"
Ok so the old version of the verification system had before Elon F'd it over. That was one of the worst changes they ever did. I'm glad Blusky didn't go with the paid method.
Bluesky is rolling out another form of Verification, the same bluecheck next to the screenname that twitter used to use. So you don't pay for it, but they're also adding a way to grant accounts verifier status, with the example in the blog being letting NYTimes verify it's journalists
Yeah, at first glance this seems ok, with both the main platform and trusted entities verifying relevant users.
It would be cool if we could "sub" to "comunnity-made verification lists" like with labels, but other than that it looks fine, Im not sure why the blacklash.
is there any reason for that? to me it seems like its just an actual verification system instead of like, bsky premium bs or whatever twitter was doing
It's "actual verification", though given bsky's obsession with being a technology-framework rather than a platform, expect there to be more problems later.
But the immediate problem is just, the branding. Why on earth would you use the symbol that everyone now associates with jerks.
Cause this entire platform is just a regurgitation of Twitter to begin with, from the guy that made Twitter.
Expecting him to have an original bone in his body is like expecting the world to suddenly get better overnight.
Or half the things from Twitter tbh. I feel like most of us only went there once NSFW was banned from Tumblr for a little while so I'd love to see a whole *new* platform without any of the same limitations as Twitter/Bsky.
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Especially when it came to doing weird shit.
Can you repost my pinned post please 🙏🙏❤️🩹
The good news is that you don’t need to pay for it (hopefully forever)
pretty fine idea
This is a return to how those blue checks used to be, verifying people who says what they are before Musk ruined everything
Let’s just observe how this goes
After the mods unsuspended Jesse Singal and doubled down on such, I don't have leniency left in my soul for transmisogynistic FOSSbro sweats.
No need for a Musk when we have an Aaron Rodericks.
It would be cool if we could "sub" to "comunnity-made verification lists" like with labels, but other than that it looks fine, Im not sure why the blacklash.
They're gonna go after blue check lists.
But the immediate problem is just, the branding. Why on earth would you use the symbol that everyone now associates with jerks.
Expecting him to have an original bone in his body is like expecting the world to suddenly get better overnight.
It's just wild that they expect people to want these checkmarks.