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Loving the plural verification thing that's taking off on mu.social. 💖💥 We should never have verification depend on the rules of just one company. That's just not how civilised spaces work.

mu.socialmu
Verified on Eurosky@eurosky.bskycheck.com

@robin.berjon.com has been verified by @stewardshiplab.org

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What exactly do you verify? What can I deduce from the fact that an account was verified by you? I can't find anything about this on your Web site.

I am honestly so confused about this! I’m now verified on Eurosky (yay!), but this doesn’t show up on Bluesky (boo!). The verification process and rules (if there are any) for both seem extremely fuzzy, particularly if you don’t understand what’s going on at the protocol level…

Please excuse our mess while we figure out democracy 😂 Different apps choose which verification sources they trust. We're figuring out how to do something better by doing, so it's in progress.

Hehe. It all seems a bit arbitrary! I don’t like Bluesky’s (or original Twitter’s) approach of only verifying notable figures as that’s inherently subjective and elitist. Better to have a democratised system whereby *anyone* can in principle be verified provided they satisfy the criteria…