Dylan FreedmanDec 22, 2022

Anyone familiar with the way Mastodon handles verifying URLs? At the Washington Post we're working on adding verified rel="me" and Mastodon links in our author profiles, but we're seeing mixed results on verification actually going through. It seems non-deterministic(?)

@dylan (me): works
@jeremybmerrill: does not work even though he's on the same server as me
@zubakskees : works
(+ more)

The author pages on the Post are identical in terms of linking back to Mastodon. #mastodon

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@dylan @jeremybmerrill @zubakskees in itself, the protocol used is XFN (https://gmpg.org/xfn/), so it should "just work" but if I recall correctly you have to add rel=me on you webpage before adding the metadata field in your account.
Also, second idea that comes to my mind, as XFN rel=me is supposed to link one website with one identity is that since you succeeded, the website is linked to you and nobody else.
Worth to check what XFN says about that, and if it's not another check done by masotodon?
XFN - XHTML Friends Network

Dec 22, 2022 at 7:01pmWeb
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@dylan @jeremybmerrill @zubakskees (edit, as it works for two of you, the last section of my former message is a wrong assumption)