#blue-check — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #blue-check, aggregated by home.social.
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EU Fines X €120M for ‘Deceptive’ Blue Checks in Historic First DSA Penalty
#EU #DSA #X #ElonMusk #SocialMedia #Regulation #TikTok #BlueCheck #DigitalSafety #JDVance #EuropeanCommission #TechPolicy
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Getting verified by Bluesky: a surprisingly easy process, no ID upload needed
My Bluesky account now has one thing in common with my pre-2023 Twitter account: a white checkmark inside a blue circle. But unlike the social-media status symbol that I’d spent a couple of weeks in 2014 lightly working the refs at Twitter to get, this one required no ongoing effort on my part and probably wasn’t necessary anyway.
That last part is because I had taken advantage of Bluesky’s domain name-based verification two years ago, after figuring out some wonkiness with WordPress.com domain registrations. That was an easy choice, since converting my Bluesky handle to @robpegoraro.com tied my identity there to a site at which I’ve been writing since the spring of 2011.
But I recognized how a domain-rooted verification regime could break in practice. What if an attacker registered a first name-last name domain to try to con a widely-followed journalist? What if somebody registered a domain name through Bluesky’s option to do that and then had that domain name only point to their own Bluesky profile?
So when Bluesky introduced a decentralized verification system in April, including the option of having a “trusted verifier” organization vouch for your account, I had to try it out. And by “had,” I mean I set it aside for the next month and change until my journalist pal Dwight Silverman, the Houston Chronicle’s longstanding tech columnist, got verified about three weeks ago.
That spurred me to fill out the Google Docs form for Bluesky verification. The form noted that Bluesky management reserved the right to require ID-based verification “at a later date” via an unspecified form of document and outlined such requirements as having an account representing “a real person, registered business, organization, or legitimate entity” and being ranked as “notable within your field and geographic region.”
After I selected “Journalist/News Organization” from an opening list of “Verification Categories,” the form requested my role at my publication, the address of that news organization’s site, and links to three recent stories under my byline. (I leaned on my PCMag affiliation for this part.) An essay-question screen invited up to 500 words of self-promotional copy, which I provided with an elevator-pitch version of my LinkedIn profile.
Twenty-two days later, a “Welcome to Bluesky Verification!” e-mail landed in my inbox. That Monday-evening message brought the heartwarming news that “you are notable and that we’ve confirmed you are who you claim to be, helping other users find and trust your account on the Bluesky app.”
It further advised that I should “avoid changing account names or handles,” not let my account go dormant for too long (no risk!), and refrain from violating Bluesky’s community guidelines.
I can live with all that. I also appreciate that this is the first verification badge which I’ve picked up on social media after playing strictly by a platform’s rules: My Twitter verification started with an IRL chat with a Twitter employee at a journalism conference in 2014, while somebody at Facebook verified my now-deprecated public page without me asking.
I got no such favor at Instagram, and seeing that platform ignore my reports of an obvious impostor has left me exceedingly uninterested in paying for “Meta Verification.” Which means my checkmark at Bluesky may be my only official social-media validation for some time to come, and I’m okay with that.
#authentication #bluecheck #Bluesky #BlueskyVerification #bsky #checkmark #domainNameVerification #FacebookVerification #socialMedia #TwitterVerification #validation #verification #verified
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ICYMI: Bluesky expands verification with blue checks and trusted verifiers: Social platform adds visual verification layer to complement domain-based system. https://ppc.land/bluesky-expands-verification-with-blue-checks-and-trusted-verifiers/ #Bluesky #SocialMedia #Verification #BlueCheck #Trust
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ICYMI: Bluesky expands verification with blue checks and trusted verifiers: Social platform adds visual verification layer to complement domain-based system. https://ppc.land/bluesky-expands-verification-with-blue-checks-and-trusted-verifiers/ #Bluesky #Verification #BlueCheck #SocialMedia #Trust
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Bluesky expands verification with blue checks and trusted verifiers: Social platform adds visual verification layer to complement domain-based system. https://ppc.land/bluesky-expands-verification-with-blue-checks-and-trusted-verifiers/ #Bluesky #Verification #SocialMedia #BlueCheck #Trust
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Weekly output: Bluesky verification, brain-computer interface, Xfinity Mobile, resisting FTC commissioners, Comcast pain points
RIO DE JANEIRO–The organizers of Web Summit Rio have once again seen fit to have me moderate panels at their conference here (with my hotel paid for and my airfare to be reimbursed). And while last year I got away with only doing one panel, this year I have three: a discussion about Web3 possibilities Monday, a session on data privacy Tuesday, and a panel about AI in advertising on Wednesday.
4/21/2025: Bluesky Adds Blue Checks to Verified Accounts, But They’re Not for Sale, PCMag
Bluesky’s management continues to impress me with their thoughtful responses to problems that arise with that decentralized platform.
4/23/2025: I Controlled a Wheelchair With My Mind (Well, I Think I Did), PCMag
The research for this happened three weeks ago at NTT’s Upgrade 2025 conference in San Francisco (with that Japanese telco covering my airfare and lodging), but writing this post took some time. And then my editor had to find time of her own to edit this between all of the news breaking this month.
4/23/2025: Xfinity Mobile’s New Premium Unlimited Plan Doubles Data Without a Price Hike, PCMag
I felt a little confused covering a story about Comcast that did not involve a service costing more–especially coming a day after T-Mobile announced a rate rewrite that looks like it will amount to a large cost increase for many users.
4/24/2025: The FTC Commissioners That Trump Wants to Fire: We’re Not Going Away, PCMag
I spent Wednesday and Thursday at the privacy trade group IAPP’s annual conference in D.C. thinking that Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel interviewing Rebecca Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, the two members of the Federal Trade Commission that Trump wants gone, would be the newsiest part. And so it was.
4/25/2025: Comcast Execs: Our Pricing Is Opaque and We Can Be Hard to Do Business With, PCMag
Because I was busy getting ready for IAPP Thursday morning, I missed the Comcast earnings call that featured executives admitting the “pain points” the company had created with its customers. Fortunately, nobody else at PCMag picked up the story before I could get to it Friday.
#blueCheck #blueCheckmark #bluecheck #Bluesky #BlueskyVerification #brainComputerInterface #Comcast #ComcastRates #FederalTradeCommision #FTC #IAPP #NTT #NTTUpgrade2025 #pricingTransparency #RebeccaSlaughter #wheelchair #Xfinity #XfinityMobile
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»#Bluesky Is Rolling Out Official #Verification: It mixes the old-school, Twitter-style #bluecheck bestowed by the platform with a more decentralized option for trusted organizations.« https://www.wired.com/story/bluesky-official-verification-blue-check/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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#Bluesky unveils a #verification system, but you still can't request a #bluecheck
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This is exactly what Twitter tried to do, and it backfired rather spectacularly, creating a two-tier system without any clear criteria for membership. 🤷♂️ #Bluesky #VerifiedAccount #BlueCheck
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/post/3lndjyecwcs2a -
Bluesky to Introduce Blue Check Verification System
#Bluesky #SocialMedia #Verification #ATProtocol #TechNews #BlueCheck
https://winbuzzer.com/2025/04/19/bluesky-to-introduce-blue-check-verification-system-xcxwbn/
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🌐 SOCIAL MEDIA
🔴 Bluesky Preps Decentralized Blue Check System🔸 Code changes show mavi tik is coming — with a twist.
🔸 “Trusted verifiers” like news orgs may issue checks directly.
🔸 Verified users will show a blue circle; verifiers get scalloped one.
🔸 Unlike X, no paywall — verification power is distributed.#Bluesky #Verification #SocialMedia #Decentralized #BlueCheck
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CW: arthropod
I'm told a blue tick improves your posts' reach and engagement.
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The #bluecheck went from exclusive badge to forced brand under #ElonMusk. Now #X (formerly #Twitter) is eliminating the choice for users to hide their paid verification status.
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X will no longer allow users to hide their Premium blue check, even if they didn't want it in the first place.
The new policy comes after users with a high number of followers were automatically upgraded to Premium for free, says @theverge
"Once a status symbol, the blue check lost some of its luster after X shifted to a paid verification system under Elon Musk’s ownership."
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"That’s not verification. It’s also not valuable. It’s just designed to hide Musk’s incompetence in managing the platform, while (once again) undermining the whole “pay me for this site I’m making worse day by day” business model that #Musk keeps pushing."
#bluecheck
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/05/elon-recreates-the-lords-peasants-bluecheck-system-he-hated-but-makes-sure-its-even-dumber/ -
This is why paid verification is stupid. No profile picture but has a blue check. #twitter #bluecheck
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@manitius
IMAGINE PAYING FOR PEOPLE TO SEE YOUR POSTS ON A SOCIAL NETWORK!! 🤪 -
Imagine paying money to be able to edit your own posts. 😆 😂 🤣
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Imagine paying money to have 1000 (or even 500) characters in a post. 😆 😂 🤣
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Musk is taking fake advertiser money to place ads that use his own name and face to falsely endorse their product, and burdening the fact-checking community with annotating it.
I can't even.#ElonMusk #advertising #blueCheck #Twitter #Xitter #scam #newLow
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Blue check Twitter (X) subscribers will be required to submit their photos and a photo of a government issued ID to an Israeli company with ties to Israeli Intelligence.
After this, every Twitter blue check mark should be seen as a little target symbol for any scammer who is looking for the world's most gullible person.
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@auschwitzmuseum wrote an informative statement on why #Elon removing the #Block feature from #Twitter is a terrible idea which will disproportionately affect persecuted groups, especially those the #Bluecheck #fascists don't like, such as scientists, ethnic minorities, nonwhites, non-christian religious groups, etc.
Twitter threads may soon become vast seas of Bluechecks dumping their #HateSpeech on everyone they want to oppress, drowning out all discourse. It's a #hellsite, #SocialMedia controlled by the most hateful people on the internet.
Yet another nail in the coffin of Twitter.
https://twitter.com/AuschwitzMuseum/status/1692582661070438770
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Taking the #BlueCheck out of my name on here.
It seemed humorous and ironic when I added it, but it's beginning to feel like ironically wearing a #Swastika after seeing seas of bluechecks on #Twitter promoting Putinism, calling for the deaths of minorities, and otherwise being horrible, anti-humanitarians...
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About half of people in the US support #Ukraine, with that number even higher when you only look at people connected enough to actually have information on the situation.
Scrolling through #VolodymyrZelenskyy / #Zelenskyy 's #Twitter timeline, however, one would think there was zero support and the #Biden admin was giving them old military equipment against the will of his own people.
This is an example of "#BlueCheck #Fascism", where a politically polarizing figure has asked his followers to give him money in exchange for reach, and the people who are willing to give him money are the worst people on the site, whose horrible takes would otherwise be ignored as uninformed, deplorable, or insane. Bolstered to the top of the comments, they make Putinist propaganda look like normal viewpoints.
This is why Twitter is a #Hellsite, this is why Corporate #SocialMedia doesn't work, this is why #Mastodon exists, and why #Fediverse MUST supplant its alternatives for the good of humanity.
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#ElonMusk’s #X can’t send Blue subscribers their ad revenue-sharing payouts on time
Friday night is a good time to announce you’re not paying your bills.
"That’s not exactly what you’d want to hear from a program touting itself as “part of our effort to help people earn a living directly on X,” and the key to Elon Musk’s X dream for an app that handles #banking, stock trading, and other vital financial features."
#TwitterTakeover #BlueCheck #TwitterBlue #Twitter
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/4/23820859/x-twitter-ad-sharing-payment-unpaid-delay-elon-musk
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Yeah, it's a GREAT sign when your membership symbol, the whole status thing you've been touting as an eagerly-sought feature of a subscription, becomes something you have to let people HIDE to avoid mockery. #ElonMusk #Twitter #x #bluecheck
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#Twitter #X #Musk #Mastodon #Fediverse #BlueCheck
🚨*Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their blue checks to conceal that they’re paying for Twitter and avoid memes about how “this MF paid for twitter.”*🚨
Just move to Mastodon! Simples! 🐘 😁
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/2/23816924/twitter-x-blue-subscribers-hide-blue-check-option
