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 threadRussNov 20, 2022
(Looking at you, @pflag)
Show threadPFLAG NationalNov 20, 2022
@theruss Yup. We know. Our IT person was alas down with COVID. It will happen. Thank you.
Show threadRuss

@pflag

Oh no! Rest is super important for avoiding long COVID, so I hope I didn't come across as overly impatient. I'm just doing my best to have your back by weeding out impersonators.

BTW, if you post a link to your Mastodon profile from your Twitter account (as a tweet, from your profile, etc.), it helps twice:
1) more folks from there find you over here
2) it's good enough proof until Twitter crashes.

  ðŸ’ª

Nov 20, 2022 at 9:55pmWeb