The rapidly growing social networking startup Bluesky, a Twitter/X alternative built on open web principles, revealed in a livestream on Monday how its approach to user account verification will ...

One reason for the confusion: Bluesky lacks a verified user badge like the one popularized on Twitter (now known X, which itself replaced the old verification with a paid subsc programription).

Liu also said that Bluesky was working on “easier visual signals we could use for verification so it's a better user experience,” though it’s not yet clear what form that might take.

The outcome so far is an assortment of online services handling sensitive user information — a “privacy nightmare,” says Cody ...

This is another layer of verification on top of Bluesky's verified domain system, which allows individuals and organizations to set their domain as their user name. This is still available to all ...

Bluesky is ramping up its verification program, even though it's still not exactly clear how it plans to determine which accounts are "authentic and notable" enough for a blue checkmark.

Bluesky is rolling out visible account verification labels similar to Twitter’s blue check marks. For now, the checks will be applied to notable user accounts, including those belonging to ...

The video game’s photo mode is being used to outsmart age verification systems on popular platforms like Discord and Reddit ...

Bluesky announced in October that it had over 13 million users. One month later, Bluesky's COO told Business Insider that it had "blown past" its user growth projects and had surpassed 21 million ...

Bluesky has introduced blue checks to verify “authentic and notable accounts” on the social media platform. The new feature is reminiscent of the verification system adopted by Twitter before ...

One reason for the confusion: Bluesky lacks a verified user badge like the one popularized on Twitter (now known as X, which itself replaced the old verification with a paid subscription).