Bluesky is cracking down on impersonators and scammers.

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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    8 hours ago

    Using a domain for your handle means it entirely replaces the original bsky handle you signed up with.

    I could go from being mentaledge.bsky.social to mentaledge.com, for example. (And they don’t need to be the same “username” so to speak, I could have registered therealmental.bsky.social, but then become mentaledge.com, provided I own the domain.)

    The main difference is that the orignal handle is a subdomain of bsky, while you can be the root domain if you use your own.

    Before, you’d lose your original handle, meaning someone else could grab it once you did this, and then pretend to be you. Now they can’t.