Dr. Jorge CaballeroFolks dunking on #fedified insist that the "real" way to verify oneself on the fediverse is to buy your own domain name. So, I hereby announce that insulin is free! For details, just visit EIiLiIly.com
Дурдомова 
@DataDrivenMD and why should we trust the random guy on the internet to do all the verification job for us instead, then?.......
Gina@sarasapfir People can choose whether or not to trust @DataDrivenMD and Fedified, just as they can choose whether or not they trusted twitter's verification prior to EM breaking it. They can also choose whether or not to trust other forms of verification. Sooner or later, someone else is bound to make their own version of centralized verification, based on whatever process they feel is trustworthy. Nobody has to use these tools, if they don't trust them. It's easy enough to ignore.
Speaking of which... Here is a journalist verification site. Looks like it also works by carrying over verification from Twitter.
https://www.presscheck.org/
Hopefully at some point there will be verification processes that don't rely on Twitter or having edit access on one's own website, so that it's easier for people to find potentially reliable sources of the most current information from others with expertise on the subject.
j.r / Julian@thekat03 @sarasapfir @DataDrivenMD but then why are there Twitter expat tutorials just blindly telling about this service without warning about the risks? I think the whole concept of outsourcing the verification part is flawed, if you really care as a user you should go yourself, take a look on the Twitter of a person and if they linked to their Mastodon account. Or encourage users to use decentralised verification like @keyoxide
Lesley Carhart 
@thekat03 @sarasapfir @DataDrivenMD it all feels like much ado about nothing to me. Just yesterday I spoke to a really well known journalist who has no site to put verification code on and is already being faked on here. Your list is a really good solution. Nothing nefarious.
Adam@hacks4pancakes @thekat03 @sarasapfir @DataDrivenMD Time to bring back key-signing parties but add a step where we also post cryptographically signed messages of attestation to our feeds that include relevant public keys, and then we can each collect those attestations on our profiles like Pokemon to demonstrate our bona fides to potential followers. It's so easy! What could go wrong?
TJ Klug @sarasapfir @DataDrivenMD @thekat03 verification is inherently non distributed by nature. We go through verification all of the time. AirBnb is a good example. DMVs etc. I think the first person to go one of those routes and doesn’t allow name changes (or verified name changes) solves the issue. I’d be curious though if anyone has ideas of decentralized identification. When seconds matter to credibility.
ZagTheRaccoon 🦝 (Essayist)@thekat03 @sarasapfir @DataDrivenMD I'm sure your familiar with the concept of systemic pressures and how obviously things that "are easy enough to just ignore" become less so as they amass centralized power.