I can feel the dentralization oozing out.
Bluesky Is Rolling Out Official Verification
“Starting today, Bluesky is rolling out a new verification system, complete with the familiar blue check marks popularized by Twitter. The highest-priority accounts right now are government officials, news organizations and journalists, and celebrities.”
This is a good move as the platform has attracted quite a few celebrities as well as mainstream news media. There is also provision for some organisations to become their own trusted verifiers, I imagine for their journalists.
And of course, anyone can still self-verify against their own domain name (just without a blue tick mark).
See https://www.wired.com/story/bluesky-official-verification-blue-check
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Discussion
Yes it will be interesting to see how this works on any decentralised Bluesky servers (when those ever come). I get that it would obviously attract news organisations and celebrities, of course.