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

@dylan @jeremybmerrill @zubakskees

No noticeable differences between your pages and rel="me" links. Sometimes, it can take a few hours to be picked up. If possible, see if the following format can be added instead to make the link cleaner (without any css refs:

<a rel="me" href="https://journa.host/@jeremybmerrill"></a>

This format tends to be picked up in minutes I've noticed.

EDIT: Make sure to include full https - my link above was truncated