I've read many requests to add Mastodon links to GitHub profiles for verification and discovery purposes.
My team is working on allowing you to add a number of social profile links, but given upcoming holiday vacations, it won't ship until the new year. We don't want to rush something out at the potential cost of disrupting what is generally a quiet time for our engineers.
Ordinarily, I wouldn't talk about in progress work on social media, but y'all seem like you can keep a secret.
You can now add up to four social account links to your GitHub profile which render with a sprinkling of formatting support for our most popular platforms. Yes, the resulting links links will satisfy Mastodon verification requirements when rendered.
To get started, visit your profile and click the "Edit profile" button in the sidebar.
@preya In the case of non-obvious hosts, We make a NodeInfo request to the host to see what software its running. The request has an aggressive time out set, and I'm guessing it failed in your case.
We're working on making this more resilient, but in the meantime, removing and re-adding your link may lead to success.
Derek Prior
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