hi! sorry that is your immediate first experience here. have a lot of vibe control work in progress. tangentially, an novel and idiomatic thing to do here is set up a domain handle, which acts as a form of identity verification/control. works via DNS TXT record, see "Change Handle" setting
yeah this is pretty awful, I was joking matty signing up would mean bsky had crossed from hipster to mainstream twitter... but it's not so funny seeing how awful normie twitter can be 😞
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