In your mastodon bio you link to your other precenses on the web (webpage, twitter, GitHub, whatever)
On those profiles you add an (invisible) link to your mastodon profile. Mastodon can then verify that your mastodon profile and your other sites are controlled by the same entity, and get a blue tick.
Then what is the point of what the OP is saying? How is Mastodon any different? If anything it looks like it’s worse because ICE just have a basic link to their website and it’s done.
Verified just means we can believe that they are who they say they are. Doesn’t mean that they’re trustworthy or believable.
Or to put it another way: The identity of their account is verified. The contents of their posts are not verified.
I don’t agree with the point OP is trying to make in this instance regarding verification. (Letting that well documented lethally violent gang of thugs use their platform is Bluesky’s actual transgression here)
Does Mastodon even have the verification feature?
Yes, though it works a bit differently.
In your mastodon bio you link to your other precenses on the web (webpage, twitter, GitHub, whatever)
On those profiles you add an (invisible) link to your mastodon profile. Mastodon can then verify that your mastodon profile and your other sites are controlled by the same entity, and get a blue tick.
What’s stopping ICE from verifying on Mastodon?
The will to do so.
Also finding an instance to register on that won’t ban them for
(Rule 3 on mastodon.social)
Then what is the point of what the OP is saying? How is Mastodon any different? If anything it looks like it’s worse because ICE just have a basic link to their website and it’s done.
Verified just means we can believe that they are who they say they are. Doesn’t mean that they’re trustworthy or believable. Or to put it another way: The identity of their account is verified. The contents of their posts are not verified.
I don’t agree with the point OP is trying to make in this instance regarding verification. (Letting that well documented lethally violent gang of thugs use their platform is Bluesky’s actual transgression here)
Exactly. Hate bluesky for letting them post the inevitable insane shit they’re going to post, not for verifying they’re who they say they are.