Bluesky, the upstart, decentralized social network that’s offered an island of blue calm for those departing the tumultuous, dark waters of X (formerly Twitter), is finally introducing an official form of account verification. It will look familiar to those who spent time on old-school Twitter, but it does feature a few notable caveats. Up until today (April 21, 2025), there was no Bluesky-supported system for verifying an account or visual indication of verified status, and the microblogging social media platform was suffering from an imposter problem. Bluesky addressed this, in a way, by encouraging people to set up and use their own domain names to establish the veracity of an account. My account, for instance, is attached to lanceulanoff.com, a domain I’ve owned for years. Bluesky reports that some 270,000 accounts have linked their accounts to domains. Still, setting up a domain and connecting it to your Bluesky account is not a trivial matter. This new feature […]