Bluesky, the decentralized and decentralized social network which offered an island of blue calm for those who leave the tumultuous and dark waters of X (formerly Twitter), finally presents an official form of account verification. He will seem familiar to those who have spent time on the old -fashioned twitter, but he presents some notable warnings.
Until today (April 21, 2025), there was no system supported by Bluesky to verify an account or a visual indication of the verified status, and the microblogging social media platform suffered from an impostor problem. Bluesky addressed this, in a way, by encouraging people to set up and use their own domain names to establish the veracity of an account.
My account, for example, is attached to Lanceulalantoff.com, an area that I have had for years. Bluesky reports that some 270,000 accounts have linked their accounts to domains.
However, the configuration of a domain and connect it to your Bluesky account is not a trivial question. This new feature considerably simplifies the process.
A new check
According to a new Bluesky blog article, there are now three levels of identity on the platform: the basic Bluesky account, a confidence verifier and an audited account.
The confidence verifier is interesting because it is a verified story which, with Bluesky Examining, can verify other accounts. The example given is the New York Times Bluesky account, which can then check the accounts of its journalists.
Years ago, Twitter had something similar, where an entity like Techradar could directly ask Twitter to check some of his accounts as journalist employees.
It was not a popular feature for example, for example, celebrities and civil servants, who wondered (often on Twitter) why journalists needed verification. The subject of peaceful checks and verification on Twitter has become so heavy that, for a while, the CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, stopped checking the accounts. When Elon Musk took over, he deleted the checks of millions of accounts, to return them a few months later.
Who checks who
Bluesky wrote that he proactively checks some “authentic and notable accounts”, which will now have white control in a blue circle.
Confidence verifiers will have a scalloped blue verification to indicate their touted status. A press the verified status of someone can show you which confidence verification verification has given verification.
It is not necessarily an infallible system, because I think that media societies could seek to check all the journalists on their camp, and Bluesky could push this. Or maybe Bluesky says yes, but at some point, “the notables” become irritated because there are suddenly so many non-famous people with checks.
One thing Bluesky does not support is “verification requests”. However, the social media platform does not exclude it and promised that when this system sets up and stabilizes, it “will launch a request form for notable and authentic accounts interested in being verified or becoming confidence verifiers”.
If you are wondering about the other decentralized social media platform, the wires, it adopts checks directly from Instagram, another meta-ownership.
It will be interesting to see what Bluesky asks in its future verification process and if part of it will imply a form of identification.
