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Bluesky finds with growth comes growing pains — and bots (apnews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can spin up your own instance to ensure you have a custom username suffix. That's literally all anyone needs to distinguish themselves from fake accounts. Trusting any org to remain a neutral authority is a mistake and a bigger risk than getting users to agree on an accurate source based on a suffix.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

This is a neckbeard dream, and it is why activity pub will never take off.

Grandma ain’t running her own instance, but she can swipe her card and get “grandmahotstuff.com” tied to her ATproto DID.

As long as the did is maintained by a neutral org like let’s encrypt, and icann remains functional, it’s a superior model, as those orgs are now tied to the functioning of the internet itself.