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One thing I want to make clear! If you set your username to a domain, you can change it later without any loss to your account. Let me step through some scenarios:

Scenario: I set my username to paul.bsky.team, then I leave the company and they take away that subdomain Solution: I change my username back to pfrazee.com or pfrazee.bsky.social or something else. I don't lose my account or my followers

Scenario: I set my username to pfrazee.com but forget to renew the domain name, and I lose it Outcome: When it expires, the servers notice and will stay "Invalid handle" on my account Solution: I change my username to something else. I don't lose my account or followers

This came up in the context of orgs setting subdomains for their members. There ARE effects to doing that. Web links to your profile or posts depend on your username. But I did want to make it very clear, it only affects your username. An org-given username does not hand over control beyond that.

If it resolves the DID to the current association could things be out of context? Or is the handle that resolved at post time preserved on the post?

Ah, I know this one! In the current Bluesky code base, your posts show your current handle and address, for all posts past and current.

Oof. So that can be misleading if people make certain assumptions based on current handle on past posts. The association authority at post time is lost. Perhaps there should be a history of handles contained on a profile and posts should refer to that based on post time. Hmmmm.

From a legal, regulatory and PR standpoint... Personal accounts should not be used for corporate activities. Not saying it doesn't happen, saying when the person with all your followers leaves your employment - they're taking that customer list with them and potentially trashing you to them.

My single test that showed this is I changed my domain to it's current setting from one I decided I didn't like. Some hundreds of posts in. My entire post history shows my current one. No trace of the one I abandoned.

If I look up your handle on clearsky.app I can see the history of your handle changes. I assume this is preserved in the profile metadata in some way. I suppose the app can just be taking snapshots too