Hacker NewsVerifying your Matrix devices is becoming mandatory
https://element.io/blog/verifying-your-devices-is-becoming-mandatory-2/
#HackerNews #Verifying #Matrix #devices #Mandatory #Security #Privacy #MatrixProtocol
Steve Dustcircle 🌹#Reddit starts #verifying ages of users in the #UK
eicker.news ᳇ tech news#Reddit has started #verifying the #ages of #UK users to comply with the country’s #OnlineSafetyAct: Users will be required to provide a selfie or photo of government ID to access mature content. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/reddit-starts-verifying-ages-of-uk-users-to-comply-with-child-safety-law/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
FinchHaven sfbaYeah
I know nothing about Ko-fi but that was my next (only) thought: contact someone in tech support and see what they say
Good luck with it
Question: do you have direct read-write editorial control over that page?
IOW: can you edit the html yourself and save the result?
Thus: <a rel="me" href="https: ... ">Mastodon</a>
Even so, at my photography page on Smugmug - where I do have direct editorial control - even after I edited my landing page to add the html rel="me" tag it wouldn't work because Smugmug's html parsers edited the tag to remove the rel="me"
Executive summary: like many other things on #Mastodon, there's more technical details involved in #Verifying yourself than is immediately explained
SibshopsI'm guessing that something changed when #verifying an account to #github. I didn't have to use the special html link. Instead I just had to add a link to mastodon on my account.
HACKthePRISONScan i just say that putting a 
or 
or whatever emoji next to your name has exactly one use case: when you are mocking how easy it is to do.
i can't believe the number of week-old accounts who insist on verifying as though 1) anybody cares or 2) it actually matters.
if you need to verify, post a fucking email address or phone number or pgp signature or literally any other actual verification metric.
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#verified #bluecheck #emoji #mocking #verifying #verify #email #emailAddress #phone #phoneNumber #pgp #pgpSignature #pgpKey #verification
Mi Go (teno)Can't for the life of me figure out why the Wordpress on my profile isn't #verifying. I've tried placing the rel="me" anchor link in several places in my templates.
Anyone willing to offer advice?
Benjamin S-B I have just followed this excellent advice on "#verifying" yourself as an #academic with #ORCID. To celebrate, I adorned my name with a fancy 
#BecauseICan 😅 https://mas.to/@marekmcgann/109308418446994874
#BecauseICan 😅 https://mas.to/@marekmcgann/109308418446994874
Marek McGann (@[email protected])
Have just realised that #academics can use @[email protected] to #verify themselves. Just include your full mastodon link (like this: https://mas.to/@marekmcgann) in the "Websites and Social Links" section in ORCID, then include link to your ORCID record in your Mastodon profile. Hurray for distributed digital identities!
adingbatponder 
👾@tomsherman Hi. Re #verifying #verify #github account... there is a way... can't remember where I saw it... or was I dreaming... arg...