Scott Hanselman ✅👸🏽🐝🌮Some Mastodon tips for someone with ONE DAY'S EXPERIENCE. Turn on the Advanced Web Interface - it's like tweetdeck. Make Columns. Verify yourself with links in your sites and rel="me". Consider your sounds/notifications for sanity. Go to https://fedifinder.glitch.me or https://twitodon.com and get an export of who you follow on twitter and import it here to follow the same folks. Turn off sounds. Note that Bridges exist to Twitter for your favs.
Michael Welch@shanselman I tried a few years ago to set up links and never understood how to do it. I see you have it working. Are there decent instructions now. I take it you add a link to your domain in your profile and then ???? Do Something on your domain.
@shanselman ok. Looked at your website and see your link back to mastodon. So I got that part. So then you just had a link to your site from your bio?
@shanselman never mind. Think I figured it out. Will wait a bit to see if it worked.
@shanselman oh now it makes sense. The green checkmark is fake. But I can see my blog link is now green/verified. Was expecting a green checkmark. No wonder I couldn’t get it to work 3 years ago. Thanks for serving as an example. 😀
@mgwelch note that I am seeing blue verified checkmarks on other servers but they are just custom emoji on that instance. This instance doesn’t support that emoji.
𝒜dam 𝒮cheinberg // sethadam1
𝒜dam 𝒮cheinberg ⭕ (@[email protected])
Adding ": verified :" (without the spaces) to your username displays a badge. I love this as a little dig at Twitter. But for real, to verify yourself, you can use a link on your website.
@sethadam1 @shanselman cool. Didn’t work for me. I just ended up with :verified: in my name
@mgwelch @shanselman Do you see that in my name, or do you see a blue check?
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