and also gifs. please add gifs

all i want for christmas is for bluesky to become as open and distributed as it claims to be

otherwise we'll keep getting more of these mismatches

to fight this, you now keep your "bsky.social" handle when you upgrade to your own domain... which ironically makes it even worse for those of us who missed that boat

because it cements the legitimacy of bluesky's own handles, acknowledging them as a thing of value, not "just another" provider

on the one hand, we were encouraged to hook up our own domain name to our account, under the premise of a decentralised bluesky

on the other hand, it meant letting go of our precious "bsky" handles

and I've now seen several attempts at impersonation of accounts I follow

unfortunately, "bsky.social" is the ONLY handle provider. it is entirely centralised

so it's a massive vector for abuse

so "in theory" a handle like "todepond.bsky.social" couldn't be used for impersonation

because... with lots of different handle providers, people would learn to check if that handle actually belonged to me