Domain names are not verification of identity - ThreadSky

hunterw.bsky.social • 92 days ago

Domain names are not verification of identity

I will never forget the time someone bought the domain name of Guy Fieri’s failed restaurant and posted this fever dream of a menu.

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isbnnumber.bsky.social•92 days ago

Mine is.

zdroberts.bsky.social•92 days ago

Mainly I was just stunning by the low prices.

warmwestwind.bsky.social•91 days ago

freneticbalderdash.bsky.social•92 days ago

Proof of id is less of an issue than proof of personhood and limiting to one(or few) accounts per such person. And there are simple technical solutions for that!

marthamicheller.bsky.social•92 days ago

You have bots here now and obvious agitators
Need a plan to shut that down

beeaditude.bsky.social•92 days ago

I just report and blockity block. 🚫 It's annoying, but I try to "clean as I go".

austin.qualiateam.com•92 days ago

There is simply no feasible way to do this reliably. As the platform gets bigger, so will the incentives to deploy bots, which are already incentivized to be as indistinguishable from humans as possible.

Bots are a fact of life. Some kind of “suspected bot” badge seems like a good though idea lol.

marthamicheller.bsky.social•92 days ago

I mean if more than 2 accounts are posting verbatim responses then that’s a obvs show
Amiright

frankmaggiore.bsky.social•92 days ago

Bull

FanDuel and DraftKings both have a system in place to keep bots from exploiting promotions & it works.

Reddit can ban bots based on device ID as well.

Enough of this defeatist aww schucks crap.

frankmaggiore.bsky.social•92 days ago

@jay & @bluesky need to sell ad space to pay for a department which handles verifying that a user is one single human being.

Even if the user wishes to remain anonymous to the rest of the platform, centralized verification has to happen or BlueSky will fold like X did to bots & foreign influence

frankmaggiore.bsky.social•92 days ago

X currently just charges people to be verified but that method doesn’t work because all X verification proves is that someone can purchase a subscription, that’s it

BlueSky needs to verify that every single user account is 1 single human being

Then the label ‘verified human’ goes into the profile

frankmaggiore.bsky.social•92 days ago

Then, you can allow feeds to filter out accounts without that label.

This is not impossible to do, and like I said, DraftKings
& FanDuel Sportsbooks do it every day to prevent bots from abusing promotions.

And it works.

duwop.bsky.social•92 days ago

Here's someone who thinks they can, I'd changed everything to "warn" rather than "block" as I wanted to see how I perceive their accuracy. Not 100% for me in some categories, but, not un-useful in total.
https://bsky.app/profile/ducugavril.nafoforum.org/post/3lcoail6u7s25

nullprose.bsky.social•91 days ago

Care to add some nuance?

"On Bluesky, you can set your website as your username. This is one form of verification on Bluesky, and it's our version of a "blue check." We highly recommend that official organizations and high-profile individuals do this."

https://bsky.social/about/blog/4-28-2023-domain-handle-tutorial

dracup.com•92 days ago

Noticed a big uptick in hacking probes on my server since I changed my handle to my domain name. Not a big deal, but I suppose they will get harvested for nefarious deeds 🙂

wademinter.com•92 days ago

Man, after weeks of reporting, they won’t even label @carolinahurricanes.bsky.social as misleading/impersonation 😒

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