Mastodon has a verification mechanism, though it looks different from Twitter's. We do not ask for your documents. Instead, if you have a website that you are known by, you can verify that you are the owner of that website.

Link to your Mastodon profile from the website, either through a visible link, or through a <link> tag in the head of the document, with a rel=me attribute, and link back to that page from your Mastodon profile. It should then get a green checkmark, like @Mastodon.

@Gargron

geez! wish I’d found Mastodon a lot sooner. I’ve had howlinhobbit.com for years (nearly decades, plural) but the site is currently hosed and my longtime hosting service has at some point gone from efficient and friendly support to a total mess.

all I’ve got now is a temporary headquarters on a free Wordpress.com site.

If I ever get the mess straightened out I’ll happily and visibly link to my Mastadon profile. (I’ve already done that via my Linktree.)