Bluesky may soon receive a new checkmark Blue verification system, according to changes in the public depot of the application discovered on Friday by the reverse Alice.mosphere.at engineer.
Blue controls may have a look similar to the Twitter pioneered system, now X, but the Bluesky version seems to work quite differently.
Bluesky blue control system can rely on numerous organizations to distribute blue controls, according to code base changes. This suggests that Bluesky will actively verify visible account, but will also label some organizations as “trusted verifiers”, and give them the authority to release blue controls themselves.
Changes to Bluesky’s verification system can be announced immediately on Monday, according to a blog link found in the request of Friday withdrawal entitled “Verification”, which is dated to April 21, 2025.
While Bluesky already allows users to verify themselves by linking their accounts to official websites, CEO Jay Graber has hinted that the company would try other types of verification. Last year, Graber said Bluesky can experiment with a system where it is not the only group that can verify users.
The withdrawal requirement also shows an icon, a blue circle containing a white note, which will appear on the profiles of verified users. Meanwhile, trusted verifiers will have blue sculpted blue circles containing a white note on their profiles.
An image contaminated in the next Bluesky announcement suggests the New York Times, and other trusted news publishers may soon have the opportunity to verify users in the blue control system. By suppressing a user’s blue control, other users can see which organizations have given verification, according to changes.
Bluesky’s approach to verification is very different from how X operates its verification services. While X is used to distribute blue controls to known, authentic accounts, Elon Musk decided to fix the system and only verifies users paying a monthly reconciliation. Musk has been going back to that decision since then, giving blue controls some influential users who do not pay for it while still allowing other people to pay for it.
Some have argued that X has diluted the value of a blue check on its platform altogether, even allowing some bot accounts to be verified.
Bluesky did not immediately respond to Techcrunch’s request for comment.
Bluesky seems to be taking a decentralized approach to verification by spreading decision -making power in several organizations. This may mean that many users in Bluesky are being verified, but it remains to be seen how this approach will work in practice.
