Eugen RochkoThere is no verified checkmark on Mastodon.
Sometimes I wonder if allowing emoji in display names in the first place was a mistake 😕
Prana@Gargron So the verified thing is an emoji? 
I thought it was real.
I thought it was real.@seonghwa Exactly
@Gargron I guess, it's time to add some rules about impersonating things. 🤔
@seonghwa On mastodon.online and mastodon.social, I do not offer any custom emoji that looks like a verified badge, but I can't stop other servers from doing so. Though I think it is irresponsible of them...
@Gargron Yeah, it makes some of us confused about the verified things and friends keep asking me how to do it. So, so.
Will 🌹🏴@Gargron @seonghwa seems like contributing to the artifical scarcity of the clue check would only serve to help Twitter prop up its artifical value and perpetuate their class system. The reality is even on Twitter the blue check *is* meaningless because it is arbitrarily granted.
If you only want to avoid confusion for Mastodon users, have you considered giving everyone a blue check?
If you only want to avoid confusion for Mastodon users, have you considered giving everyone a blue check?
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Roboron@Gargron Well, may I know why there's no option for change our username?
dreadfulscribbler@dreadfulscribbler @Gargron A good reason, thanks for answering!
Sphinx 
A good platform is the one always give users their own choice to choose, instead of decide for them( if the emoji on the display name bothered so much)🙂
@Sphinx @Gargron @seonghwa
I wonder why this toot didn't show on my notifications...
An idea based on this: We could disable emojis, only for new users, and adding an "advanced option" for displaying emojis on the name. This should make clear that the verified emoji is just only one more emoji, while also preventing new users from thinking there are verified accounts on the fediverse. What do you think?
Thank you for your reply, disable verified and emoji(on the display name)are two things. But both of them is the symbol of freedom to control their account. It's colorful not just black and white.
About the verified sign at the beginning I don’t like it. Because I feel it’s a twitter thing and mastodon is not twitter, it’s just twitter open this function and now we feel like we are “copy” them ?No we’re not. Because on mastodon we can add anything emoji on display name, it can be a dog a cat even a piece of s**t. Of course include the verified sign.
Carsten Behrens 🇩🇪♂️@Gargron What about an update of https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/ explaining the thing of just emoji and not verified? That's not a perfect solution, but better than no warning at all.
@Carsten_Behrens It literally says “Document-based verification and blue ticks are not possible without a central authority” I doubt that many people read that
@Gargron You are right. I haven't read it. At the beginning I wasn't interested at the headline "Link verification" and skipped it, because I had no link to verify. I would expect an info under the headline "Display name". What about adding: "A display name may contain emojis. No possible emoji means 'document-based verification'. See also section 'Link verification'."
Josh 🏳️🌈⃤@Gargron @Carsten_Behrens I read that, it meant very little to me, so I ended up in this thread.
halbproHello. Because no entity either owns or runs Mastodon as a whole, there's no one to actually do any verification. Essentially you need someone to look at at your ID to give you a tick, that person can't exist in Mastodon
@nevercast @Gargron Very tempted to stick a cookie emoji in my name now