Eugen RochkoMay 4, 2022

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.

Show threadHannes HauswedellMay 5, 2022

@Gargron @Mastodon Ah, interesting. Doesn't seem to work for me, though.

I have a link from my homepage and just added the link-rel thing 🤔

Show threadDaveMay 5, 2022
@__h2__ After looking at your HTML source: Looks right... the only idea I got is a missing trailing slash on the URL to your homepage in your Mastodon profile (which browsers would add automatically). I didn't find the comparison code in mastodon yet, but I would not rule out that it is implemented to check for plain text equality with your <link rel="canonical"> meta tag value.
Show threadHannes Hauswedell
@anathem I just changed it and it worked. I then changed it back, and it still works. So, I guess the check is only performed when updating the profile 💡
May 5, 2022 at 11:27amWeb
Show threadDaveMay 5, 2022

@__h2__ Not quite... the verification is performed by the home instance of the visitor checking your profile (and then cached). So each visitor only has to trust their own instance admin not to change the verification code.

Thread where I learned that: https://toot.kif.rocks/@anathem/108211462066491209

Diplom Flausch/Daveâ„¢ (@[email protected])

Angehängt: 1 Bild @[email protected] @[email protected] Interessant. Bei mir wirds angezeigt, siehe Screenshot. Aber damit lerne ich: 1. Die Verifizierung wird von der Instanz des Betrachters bei erster Betrachtung durchgeführt und gecacht. 2. Meine eigene Instanz hats vor Jahren überprüft, als ich die Links gesetzt hab. 3. Twitter hat zwischen 2019 und heute den <link rel="me"> Tag für den Bio-Link wieder entfernt, so dass eine erneute Verifizierung nicht mehr möglich ist.

MastoKIF
Show threadHannes HauswedellMay 5, 2022

@anathem Das scheint sinnvoll :)

Bin ich bei deiner Instanz denn noch verifiziert jetzt? Auch ohne "trailing /"?

Show threadDaveMay 5, 2022
@__h2__ Nope... aber das dürfte an client caching liegen.
Show threadDaveMay 5, 2022
@__h2__
Jetzt ist der Link auch hier grün!
Show threadHannes HauswedellMay 5, 2022

@anathem 🥳

Danke für die Rückmeldung!