just verified myself in bluesky fashion, linking my account to a personal domain. my new handle is https://willoremus.com which is kinda cool i guess? if you're into that sort of thing? but still doesn't feel like the long-term answer to this site's impersonation problem. i could be wrong though!
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But yes, it's still a good start, since unless you're using a subdomain like myname.some-domain.com it takes actual work to impersonate someone.
What Bluesky is verifying is that you have some level of control over a domain, not that you the person are the person you say you are.
Both can be useful, but they are fundamentally verifying different things.
I also noticed that doing this leaves another opportunity for imposture:
would be amazing if my attempt to avoid impersonation ended up getting me impersonated
One thing that might be nice is the ability to verify via domain yet keep your old handle.
I want to be a dot net
For example, mine ☝️