Bluesky, the new decentralized social media platform, is about to launch a verification system using a blue checkmark. This move marks a new direction in how the platform will verify users. Look for the announcement to come as soon as this coming Monday. It’s poised to make verification a more meaningful process that will differentiate Bluesky’s approach to verification from competitor X, aka Twitter.
Blesky gives users the ability to verify accounts by connecting them to corresponding official websites. This unique feature encourages authenticity and transparency. This has CEO Jay Graber teased that the platform is looking into other forms of verification beyond its current assumption of a third-party framework. This kind of experimentation should be encouraged to develop a more inclusive verification system. It is not only Bluesky that would have the power to verify users.
The new blue checks to come would likely look different from the verification system first introduced by Twitter, now called X. However, Bluesky’s iteration will likely function in a much different way. Here’s how Bluesky’s approach differs from Elon Musk’s at X. They will work to personally verify high-profile accounts and identify certain organizations as “trusted verifiers” rather than restricting verification to users paying a monthly subscription. Blue checks directly, although Trusted Verifiers will be able to do that in the future. This new amendment is a win for legacy journalism like The New York Times and other trusted publishers by allowing them the opportunity to authenticate users.
The experimental changes were initially spotted in pull requests to Bluesky’s public GitHub repository by reverse engineer alice.mosphere.at. Bluesky has made some good progress on its verification improvements. It failed to answer right away when TechCrunch asked for specifics about how this new centralized system would work.
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