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this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2024
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Yes because as I understand it the custom domain is basically just a pointer. Everything still goes through the bsky servers and you can be deplatformed there at the whim of an admin/mod (On Mastodon if you don't run your own instance that can still happen, but you can instance hop. If you run your own then other instances can block your instance but it's not the whole network all at once)
I was surprised to learn how little the domain as user name feature actually means, after setting it up with my bridged account.
The real user names on Bluesky are called DIDs. Different URLs can point to a DID, making your profile discoverable through this URL. By default it'll be username.bsky.app (or username.instance.bsky.brid.gy), but as long as the URL redirects to the DID it could really be anything.
Several such redirects could be active, but you choose one to be the "official" one that shows up on your profile. People don't follow your domain though - when they interact with you, they interact with the account associated with the underlying DID.
It's basically just smoke and mirrors for what is still a very centralized service.
It is still, of course, more decentralized than Twitter, as one can post there through the bridge without having an account. So that's neat. But the whole domain thing is deceiving as hell.
I had the same thoughts about using a domain as username and it is basically smoke and mirrors. I did not know however that you can use a domain for a bridged account. Are you saying that my ActivityPub account that is bridged to Bluesky can have a username that is a domain that I own?