RussNov 20, 2022

I have a request.

Bad actors will soon figure out - if they haven't already - that setting up impersonations of important organizations now will allow them to set off an explosion of chaos and confusion at a time of their choosing.

So if you run an account for an organization (especially #LGBTQ), please set up link verification between your Mastodon account profile and your organization's website.

If not, please boost.

Instructions are here under "Link Verification":
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/

Setting up your profile - Mastodon documentation

Get started with your new account.

Show threadWolfie Rankin
@theruss The issue is most of us don't have a website.
Nov 20, 2022 at 2:13pmWeb
Show threadRussNov 21, 2022

@Wolfie_Rankin

The good news is that if you don't have a website, then you don't need to prove that your Mastodon profile belongs to the same person as your website, so you're good.

If there's something other than a website that you'd like to prove is yours - Twitter account, LinkedIn profile, Google Scholar profile, etc. - then that might be trickier.