Some people ask about how to get "verified" on #Mastodon but...

We do NOT have such a thing! Mastodon and the Fediverse is mainly about a social experience with a good privacy system. This includes to keep as less (sensitive) data as we can on every one of you!

We are no Twitter, we do not want personal documents or data! Everyone on Mastodon is the same "rank". There are many other ways people can prove who they are by posting from their Twitter for example! 

Please, do not send any personal data to us, we will delete this right away. Privacy first! 🔒

If you do want a verified icon, you can simply add a custom emoji in your display name with a shortcode 

No matter if you're king or a garbageman we deem you all important 

@stux how to get groups

@neo You can DM toot to "selected" people only!

That case only those will get the toots 😄 You can also create lists with people you like on it!

@neo Oh sorry! Posts for you! ​ You're on Pleroma I see! 
@stux groups..
@neo We don't have such a thing, sorry!
@stux @neo ah well  dont need em, groupthink bad anyway

@cee @neo

Altough... 💡

There was an idea for "circles" kinda like groups ready to be added to Masto but somewhere it went lost 🤔 Few days ago I found the commits back

I didn't think Mastodon would be an appropriate software choice for a single user instance. I would pick it if I expected to host a thousand or so users though.