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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

Or you could just start making legit users have the checkmark. That would make this mess a lot easier, but I understand that requires a lot more work and employees on your end.

When I changed my username for the very first time in order to use my domain, did I lost my xxxxxxx.bsky.social handle?

Yes - I went and snagged mine right away after I switched to a domain and put a link to my domain.

If I change my @name.bsky.social to @name.com do I lose the reserved @name.bsky.social account?

If I run an org and have employees use a subdomain as their handle, can I change that handle? Scenario: An employee provides me his DID. I create the record for phil.timmons@my.thing. Due to events beyond MY control I decide his handle should be big.fartass@my.thing. Can I just set a new DNS entry?

The employee would have to also choose to migrate to the new handle but yeah, no problems there. If you just change it and nobody does anything on the account you’d get an [invalid handle] situation

So let’s say I have a domain based handle associated to my did of my employer today and I post some things that have context today. Flash forward 3 years I have a new employer and I update my handle with a new domain based handle. If someone reads my posts from 3 years ago which handle is shown?

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.

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.

Do we have an easy way to generate a link to our profile's DID somewhere? I want to swap it over to that on sites I use infrequently so they stay pointed correctly

Why not redirect back to your new name if that happens? Similar to how github handles it. At least for the post level, assuming the post still exists. I feel like this is a pretty good incentive to not attach your account to an org, otherwise. Even good people leave good companies.

I feel like there's ways of fixing that, but it would be complicated as IIRC the record ID is not unique. But the AppView could store when indexing a post/record: DID Index time Record ID Based on that, and knowledge of what handle a DID was using at the time, the right profile could be found.

So, if a user within my org becomes a bad actor I can't destroy their content, but I can dissociate the content from my org?

So I need a way to monitor the content put up by the users in my org to make sure they are staying within the law of, err, the country that's hosting my pds?

You can give them a subdomain independently of PDS account hosting. If you're hosting their entire account in your PDS you definitely need to consider legality of content. You can nuke an account you host If you lend a subdomain it's more a reputational issue than legal (usually)

Please can you tell us when you will allow us to make and save drafts of posts?

the *only* exception to this is links to posts that contain your old username. those end up breaking, right? because it's bsky.app/profile/pfra... and not bsky.app/profile/did:...

That's my point about web links, yes

wow and i even replied to the one with this in it, lol. my bad.

maybe effectively true enough today, but worth noting: any valid at-uri can have a handle instead of a did: atproto.com/specs/at-uri... uris i’ve see so far in the firehose are always dids, but