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public service announcement: if you change your username from bsky​.social (e.g. @amk.bsky.social) to a custom domain (e.g. @april.social), please be aware that your original username will be returned to the pool and someone else can claim it.

not that I can tell at the moment. probably less of a problem while the social network is small, but definitely could be an impersonation problem as the network grows.

There was good discussion on allowing multiple domains and reserving domain equal to length of time it was active and also never letting custom domains go as long as it's verified and owned etc.

I think the goal is that there are several big domains not only .bsky.social and that ppl look at the whole domain as the user identity rather than assume mike or tom is the same person across all domains?

Yeah but say you move to workplace domain and want to go back and you don't have it available. There's definitely been discussion here on multiple domains and retention policies.

yeah definitely and makes sense for that use case... lol I posted abt this before, having journalists and professors w secondary pointers from each institution they're associated with as verification of the relationship