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 oh neat, i was worried bc my website is via google sites. good to know a link will do
@Gargron i'm having no luck with it - at least on my end, the tick hasn't showed up and it's been maybe 15 mins. I had to add a custom embed because google sites doesn't let me edit html as far as I can tell >.<