I'm seeing accounts with green verification check marks.
How does verification on a decentralized network?
@labib It doesn't. It's just the :white_check_mark: emoji. SOme people use it to indicate their main account, but it's clearly not well understood.
@labib You add the tick emoji.
You're welcome. I expect you to be verified in the next 10 minutes.
@labib is just an emoticon... nothing official.
@labib It's not a real verification, it's just an icon they put on their username.
Some use it to mock verification, some to indicate which one of their sometimes-many accounts is currently active (there's been a lot of shuffling around instances these past few days, with the load on the main ones increasing!)
@labib By carefully placing an emoji. :)
@labib You verify yourself.
TA-DAAAA!
@labib But seriously, I just pasted the green tick mark onto my display name. Felt gooooood.
@labib Like this: :white_check_mark:
@labib It doesn't yet. All the checkmarks are just emoji.
@labib you just put a "verified" emoji next to your name.
@labib we got the "manha"
@labib … Discovered they just paste a unicode character into their display name… ✅
@labib As I understand it, a lot of us are using the tick to signal that this is the instance we're using, even if we have accounts elsewhere.
@labib They are just emojis in the user name, there is no verification concept 🙂
@labib I don't think that's real, it might just be an emoji character in names?
@labib Somone said it meant it was their "Main account"