as of this week, when you verify your account by updating your username from a default like https://emily.bsky.social to your website @emilyliu.me, your former https://bsky.social username is reserved for you automatically (and prevents impersonators from claiming it). you can revert back to it at anytime
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@naylunna.bsky.social
@fisword.bsky.social
@advogadodeempresa.bsky.social
setting your website as your username is yet another way to connect your social audience ↔️ your web presence
https://aoc.bsky.social is a website
It has no reason to notify because it's not going to be aware that it's an account. It just knows to hyperlink a website.
Was gonna say that it breaks a paradigm, but I guess it doesn't. The @ was always an operator, just that on Twitter the thing it was operating on served a very small scope.
https://Neocities.org
…Oh I am so not getting any work done in 2025.
https://intranet.tildeverse.org/
https://Glitch.io
Unlike 73 year old members of Congress, who get voted over her.
but for those smaller follows/followers, when you notice their site as their handle, there is the nosy part of us visits. We would not even know they had a site on other platforms
- delete the https://bsky.social account
- update your real account to the https://bsky.social username now that it's freed up
- update back to your domain
- your https://bsky.social username will be reserved
I was surprised I was able to immediately delete, log into other account, rename to old username, then immediately rename back to my domain.
Do I have to wait until they start to impersonate me and then complain?
I mean currently this does not bother me, but it requires to regularly check this account if it goes rogue.
"Handle is already taken" error is thrown in the correct place.
I previously set my account to my domain but then when I realised this opened up my bsky username for someone else to claim I switched it back. ONE ZactheDragon is enough!
Is this supposed to redirect or no?
I just changed my handle back to the https://bsky.social version for a second and then back to my domain name & now it's reserved. This can be done if the https://bsky.social version is still available, correct?
Could the reserved username still point at the DID of the account reserving it? And basically behave like an AKA entry?
I don't remember how I did it at all in the first place I've been too feart to look 😂
1. Get everyone to report the account for impersonation to open it
2. Move back to the old account
3. Move back to domain?
Is that fair or am I misunderstanding?
I don't think anyone's gonna fall for someone posing as John Scalzi when the real deal's got hundreds of thousands of followers.
Thank you.
Cc @jay.bsky.team
- I use my domain as handle
- Changed it briefly to "username".bsky.social
-"username".bsky.social URL resolved as expected
- Changed back to domain, tried bsky URL again, this happened
How do I know the username is indeed reserved?
Will these be 2 accounts then be merged into one somehow?
Paul says no. Other people in the thread say that you can revert to the pre-verified name, and then re-verify, which should reserve it using this mechanism.
Doubles as a test account...
Redirection would be ideal so any old links we've put elsewhere would go somewhere useful.
but there won't be a viewable profile at your https://bsky.social username
Here’s my Twitter exchange with Sam from two seconds ago.
https://bsky.app/profile/ejfriedman.me/post/3ldjdriaeik2k
Change this account back to the default.
Then change back to my custom domain.
??
https://bsky.app/profile/ejfriedman.me/post/3ldjdriaeik2k
https://bsky.app/profile/alzamon.art/post/3ldjtwu3nu22w
Creo que ha funcionado
https://bsky.app/profile/ejfriedman.me/post/3ldjdriaeik2k
So if you verified your account a month ago, as of today, your old account name redirects to your verified account name. As an example, my old handle of @tdunning.bsky.social redirects to @bsky.tdunning.com (me!).
This is really nice!
Is there a way to get the reservation in place?
/.well-known/atproto-did
to
/.well-known/atproto-did.txt
?
Some web hosts, like mine, have the server configured to refuse to serve a file without a file extension.