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Loving the plural verification thing that's taking off on mu.social. 💖💥 We should never have verification depend on the rules of just one company. That's just not how civilised spaces work.

Happy to help! ✨ We've been verifying Open Source orgs and researchers

What exactly do you verify? What can I deduce from the fact that an account was verified by you? I can't find anything about this on your Web site.

Human, not misrepresenting!

And what's mu?

It's our Bluesky-compatible microblogging app, with fresh features like a news tab, editable posts, cats, etc. mu.social

and you log in with the same account?

I've never really understood this part. So you log in with the same account, but you have to use each app separately? Do you also see posts from each app on the others?

yeah, I'm still trying to find an "about" or similar page that covers all this

It's like email. You can use twelve different apps if you want to and you'll see a consistent state of your mailbox across all of them. Except it's better because it can do a lot more than just email.

I’m not sure it’s quite what you’re after, but @mackuba.eu has a detailed guide to Bluesky that covers how its federation features work. Essentially, mu.social is just another client app view of the same Bluesky data. So you can use whichever combo of front-end UI and back-end data store you prefer.

Your account your PDS (Personal Data Store). It's much like a Web site, but for structured data rather than pages. Apps read data from PDS (it's all public), and given your authentication they can modify data in your PDS. One account for any number of apps. Which can all read each other's data.

makes sense also FWIW migration to eurosky seems down

I have ADHD, which at least for my brain/age, means I don't think I can cope, but good luck with it all!

Paradoxically, I'm finding that Mu's on-screen companion kittens help me focus — don't ask me why.

I have no problems with hyperfocus hahah