Chris Trottier
This is so true.
Once Twitter’s Blue Check became attainable to everyone, suddenly the “legacy” Blue Checks didn’t want it.
So much about social media is about clout.
The reason the old Twitter influencers don’t like Mastodon is because they have to build their clout from scratch.
Meanwhile, Bluesky is rolling out the red carpet to them.
Personally, I don’t like clout chasers. But that’s me.
InfiniteOne
@atomicpoet @fediversenews Agreed.
Chris Broome
@atomicpoet @fediversenews I have a lot of sympathy for true celebrities and “notable” people. They’re constant targets for harassment, identity theft, and impersonation. Twitter’s blue checks were a very elegant solution to that problem. If Mastodon wants to court and maintain those people something similar is needed.
ekana
@atomicpoet @fediversenews I think this is a fundamental misunderstanding why checkmarked people disliked the Twitter Blue check.
Chris Trottier
@andresmh That’s been an idea for awhile. My thought is that celebrities should just start their own servers hosted on their own domain.
Andrés Monroy-Hernández
@atomicpoet counter idea: a Mastodon instance only for “notable people.” As long as the people are not notable for their toxicity, it would boost the Fediverse’s visibility and benefit those who miss following them on here.
Chris Trottier
@cbroome @fediversenews Something already exists: green checks. And you can also host your own server with your own domain.
Chris Broome
@atomicpoet @fediversenews Green checks are a start, and good for say news orgs that have trusted public sites, but it’s certainly not foolproof
Chris Trottier
@lkanies @fediversenews Blue Checks were never entirely about verification. If that were the case, the service would be available to everyone. Notability is what made you qualified for a blue check, which is tied to status and clout.
On the other hand, account verification is available to everyone who uses Mastodon.
Luke Kanies
@atomicpoet @fediversenews as a former holder of a legacy blue check mark (I wrote key software twitter used in infrastructure)…
I think you are doing them quite a disservice. I would never give Musk money for twitter. And the blue check mark now means absolutely nothing other than you pay.
If it were just a means of confirming you are who you say you are, then many would have stuck with it.
But there’s zero actual verification now. So you can and do have impersonators with check marks
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