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   clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 08:37:21 JST clarity flowers

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   @dante imo if the way you get a checkmark is by "knowing the right guy", then there is no way for that to not be interpreted as a status symbol (or at minimum, as -some- kind of social signifier). This is all so stupid.

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     dante (dante@masto.posting.haus)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 08:37:23 JST dante

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     this is, as far as i can tell, mostly because the average user on bsky was "a guy who wanted more followers than he had on twitter" and those people have always been mad about the verification check since it offered an imaginary level of privilege that functionally didn't exist. it was both dumb and pointless *and* harmful in the long run

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     dante (dante@masto.posting.haus)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 08:37:25 JST dante

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     the use of The Checkmark on twitter was originally for Notable Figures, which was subjective and thus kind of pointless; then it became for Anyone Who Pays Money, at which point it was objective and pointless.

     but that doesn't really matter because to watch the bsky commentariat react you'd think that twitter had a hardline caste system that bsky is attempting to replicate, which was never the case because the twitter system functionally did not work

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     dante (dante@masto.posting.haus)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Apr-2025 08:37:27 JST dante

     it's really funny to watch bsky flounder around with adding a verification checkmark; something that is functionally pointless when compared to their already extant method of having a URL traceback verification, which for all intents and purposes offers better user-done verification than a centralized solution and avoids the awkward nature of a centralized verification service