To *actually* verify your Mastodon account, link to your personal site in your profile and set a rel="me" header on that target page. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/#verification
@annika The nitpick - here you don't "verify the account", rather you verify that the site belongs to the owner of the account.
That's why in the UI the check mark is visible not for the account itself, but for the URL, which it refers to.
Apparently this kind of verification is enough for most of the use cases. And it is much more reliable than outsourcing the "verification" process to a certain third-party.

