> Are there any plans to allow third parties to provide verification services or is it always only going to be journalistic and educational institutions?

Anyone can put together a moderation service that labels accounts that they’ve vetted or blacklisted. It wouldn’t be that taxing to host one, but the labor to maintain it is a different story.

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dom96 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, anyone can. But unless Bluesky treats it as a trusted verifier then it doesn’t have much practical use.

	▲	extraduder_ire 9 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		If you use a 3rd party client like witchsky.app, you can trust or distrust any account you want to be a labeller and verify accounts yourself if desired. Worth keeping in mind, the original plan was to entirely rely on domain names being used as handles for verification. All ~500 .gov handled accounts on there are almost certainly who they claim to be, unless they are able to set DNS records on those domains.
	▲	TimorousBestie 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I guess I don’t appreciate the distinction between verification and an account labeler.