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Nicolò Ribaudo
@nicr.dev

Developers, do you want to verify yourself here but don't have a personal domain? You can use your GitHub account! 🦋🐱 I temporarily renamed myself to @nicolo-ribaudo.github.io :)

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Nicolò Ribaudo
@nicr.dev

Many developers already have some kind of presence on GitHub — and this way they can "carry over" their trustworthiness. It's basically a way to say "hey, I'm the same person as on that other website". It is the same as when using your own custom domain as the Bluesky username.

Nicolò Ribaudo
@nicr.dev

You need to go to the Bluesky settings > Account > Handle. Then tap on "I have my own domain" and select "No DNS Panel". In the domain name you'll need to write <your-github-username>.github.io Don't press "Verify Text File" yet!

Nicolò Ribaudo
@nicr.dev

Then, go to the repository settings, under "Pages", and set it to deploy from your main branch. Wait a few minutes for GitHub to deploy, go back to Bluesky, and click on the "Verify Text File" button.

Nicolò Ribaudo
@nicr.dev

Your handle will be changed to <github-username>.github.io, easily proving that you are the same person that uses the corresponding GitHub account and not some impersonator :)

jscul
@jscul.dev

Things like this probably weren't even major considerations when architecting Bluesky, and yet it's a fantastic feature. This is what you get when you build scalable features that developers can hook into. Developer first platforms are the future.

Lenz Weber-Tronic
@phry.dev

Everything apart from the main handle is just a pointer to your account - so if you had the `.bsky` as a main handle, all the others would still point to you. But you couldn't show them, so it's not very optimal.