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On a totally different note, @pfrazee.com has Blue Sky thought about making the "like's"/hearts blue? I think it would differentiate the site more from X.

Yeah, just create a new account to park the old one.

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Right. Block the haters, and just let this turn into Twitter 2.0

Pardon my ignorance and lack of tech finesse, but does it have to be an owned domain? All I have is a freebie website because I'm poor. That won't cut it, will it?

Im not going to lie, I’m a developer and I was confused about all this when I joined. I should be explained front and center. Unless I completely overlooked that section.

ahhh okayy thank you 😭😭

TL;DR: they made it so that your account is safe if anything were to happen to the domain you’re linked to

Thank you, I wondered about this!

This works by mapping dids to handles? If so, is it possible to map multiple handles?

Thanks for this primer, Paul! This is genuinely good to know, and it really isn't intuitive. I'm glad you've put thought into this!

I feel personally attacked 😆 (my last blog post on my domain was 2017)

Edit the DB directly so it looks like you just started blogging instead.

You can probably check the referred-by header and hide the blog for inbound links from bsky

Delete the a records so your blog no longer exists

Easy fix: just start blogging again 😜

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But of course, you can also just have fun with it. Like there's nothing (currently) hosted at nonbinary.computer, but it was a cheap domain and (I felt) a really good username, so I got the domain and set it up as my handle. Way than [something].bsky.social anyway.

you can make it cool

If a domain is controlled by a known trusted entity, let's say .gov, or a company controlling it, then it adds trust that the account is valid and not a fake one.

It can be a form of “verification” since one needs to have control over a domain to have it as your username, but it’s completely free unlike other platforms (as long as you already have a domain.) It can also be nice as a marketing thing to make people more aware of one’s website.

please fix "show less like this" button

Is there anything preventing to link multiple domain names to the same account? If we go with the idea that verification is done via domain name you might want to verify that you both are part of the Bluesky team (with paul.bsky.team) and that you own your personal domain

Shouldn't it be as easy as to remove the DNS entry or the .well-known page from the directory? Like, if say _dan.ign.com gets laid off, ign should just need to remove that subdomain and then they just get the invalid domain for the account.

How often does it go out to re-verify the domain handle, though? It would be nice if the domain owner had a way to proactively hit an API to trigger the invalidation.

To help with this it would be suuuper helpful if the original handle was reserved (with option to release) when you add a custom domain. I naively assumed it would be and now I *can’t* change back because someone else nabbed it before I realised. They now post on my old handle so I can’t change back

Please clarify one key-point : what happens to posts where your ID is mentioned ? Are they updated too ? If you changed from Jack to Joe, will my old post forever keep mentioning you as Jack ?

Nick Fuentes is still on Bluesky. bsky.app/profile/nick...

I understand you don't lose the account - but do you lose verification?

Or you could just start making legit users have the checkmark. That would make this mess a lot easier, but I understand that requires a lot more work and employees on your end.

paul, please marry me

When I changed my username for the very first time in order to use my domain, did I lost my xxxxxxx.bsky.social handle?

Nice! Hey, any news about letting us send photos on DM? We are being obligated to use Instagram DMs and it's a chore switching apps. Thanks!

If I change my @name.bsky.social to @name.com do I lose the reserved @name.bsky.social account?

But weblinks to your profile can (and sometimes already do?) use your DID instead. There should be a setting for that, actually, because I sometimes link posts in my notes for reference, and having a link with a DID instead of handle makes it hardened against "handle rot".

If I run an org and have employees use a subdomain as their handle, can I change that handle? Scenario: An employee provides me his DID. I create the record for phil.timmons@my.thing. Due to events beyond MY control I decide his handle should be big.fartass@my.thing. Can I just set a new DNS entry?

Great!!!

So let’s say I have a domain based handle associated to my did of my employer today and I post some things that have context today. Flash forward 3 years I have a new employer and I update my handle with a new domain based handle. If someone reads my posts from 3 years ago which handle is shown?

Do we have an easy way to generate a link to our profile's DID somewhere? I want to swap it over to that on sites I use infrequently so they stay pointed correctly

Hmm wonder if it's worth adding a "share permalink" or some equivalent to the menu for profiles. It's not super easy to get a did link to a profile otherwise

Why not redirect back to your new name if that happens? Similar to how github handles it. At least for the post level, assuming the post still exists. I feel like this is a pretty good incentive to not attach your account to an org, otherwise. Even good people leave good companies.

This is another good reason to support employer-subdomain alts that'll give you an [institution] icon without affecting backlinks

Is there a reason why the bluesky webapp and native apps prefer handle name based links instead of DID based links? I feel like defaulting to DIDs would help protect against linkrot and name hijacking abuses. Especially for users like journalists who's handles are subdomains of their employers.

Is there a way to avoid this, like if you link to posts with a did identifier rather than username-based link? I feel like this could become a big issue, and why Twitter links to posts rendered based on status id no matter what username was used in the link.

I feel like there's ways of fixing that, but it would be complicated as IIRC the record ID is not unique. But the AppView could store when indexing a post/record: DID Index time Record ID Based on that, and knowledge of what handle a DID was using at the time, the right profile could be found.

Alias usernames might be a good idea so that nobody can steal your handle in the meantime

So, if a user within my org becomes a bad actor I can't destroy their content, but I can dissociate the content from my org?

Please can you tell us when you will allow us to make and save drafts of posts?

the *only* exception to this is links to posts that contain your old username. those end up breaking, right? because it's bsky.app/profile/pfra... and not bsky.app/profile/did:...

I read a post on Bsky, then go to the website to confirm the legitimacy of the person who posted it, then go to whois.com and confirm the legitimacy of the website (assuming that the information there is correct)? So many scenarios that even these checks do not guarantee authenticity...

If I were to switch to a domain name is my current handle auto-squatted on or can it be lost before I change back?

I’ll admit though I have my own domain it’s been difficult for me to switch my account. 🥲 I’ll keep trying tho haha

Fine. I still believe Mastodon has a better solution though. Hey, one thing they’re doing right :))

If you go from handle A and change it to handle B, does that mean someone else can go and recreate handle A?

cname would be a good solution to link multiple usernames, especially for company subdomains, your main could still be your private, but your company could link to it

Google's Blogger (for one) does that. If you change to a custom domain, your original myname.blogspot.com forwards to your custom url in perpetuity.

*assuming that you reserved pfrazee.bsky.social so that someone didn't grab it after you relinquished it during the initial change to paul.bsky.team.

...hold authority to keep the record for that subdomain, whether to be not be able to use again or to be able to use but only for you. Because that's probably how the website works too and this is the part where Bsky is also considered decentralized because there's no center authority on that part.

that does feel like it would be a good change. if nothing else it would be handy for people who forget who has custom domain handles so if they try to look you up they can be redirected and still find you.

So where exactly do I do this change?

@aaronjbastani.bsky.social @novaramedia.com

@maddieman.bsky.social

We're not used to being treated like human beings! 😂

Will you write this also on your FAQ? I think that it could help prevent many misunderstandings.

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Those are worth very little, though.

Nevermind! I found the answer. "Your old username will be available for someone else to use... If you'd like to keep your old .bsky.social username, we recommend creating a second account to hold that username."

Tks. Goog to know this.

yes it is freed up, which is why Bluesky and others recommend making an alt to take it for yourself

Interesting. If only companies like newspapers would have like somename.wsj.com and have accounts take off that way. I think you need to publicize it more for people to understand that.

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Create subdomain TXT records _atproto.us.organization.org etc You don't need a web server on every subdomain for this to work

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Damn

only option, perhaps, is to use some font face which clearly distinguishes between similar characters. like some monospaced fonts. but it is only a partial solution old twitter did this to differentiate between 0 and O, I and l and 1, and so on

A while back I tried setting a handle to a domain name containing an å, and Bluesky said that was an invalid handle and wouldn't let me. So there's definitely some character set limiting going on.

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thanks

Does changing your handle break mentions like @qoouep.bsky.social?

Yeah, this was just one example though. Replace AOC with another prominent figure who isn't on this list and you see the issue. Once you have a handle & a following, it's hard to argue in favor of changing to a domain More generally, it would also be nice if you could have domain & bsky url as well

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Hi, i have an Petition: is there any feed that brings me posts, from the people that I give likes, comment, and that i follow? I have been using a lot the search Button to get actualized of the people i follow. You May add the search engine in your querys 😬 Keep with this nice Social Network 🙌🏾

Yes! What's stored is the DID, which doesn't change. The link text will still say the old handle, but the link will work

Thanks for sharing. 🙏 That makes sense and is good to know.

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Thanks for sharing this..very helpful

Good question

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