Angry users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system

> This approach stands in pretty stark contrast to the verification saga we've seen over on X.

So they chose an identical symbol. Engineers continue to astound me in their human factors choices. If it's "starkly" different, make it look different, like a gold seal or whatever.

This is likely not an engineering choice, don’t blame the engineers.

Most likely it’s ui/ux designers or product owners or marketing

Agree. I was too broad.

I thought the whole point of the domain verification system was to not rely on checkmarks -- a system which has already been proven to be easily abused and not scale

I just saw a Bluesky developer comment on this, seems they're really taking a beating over it