Derek PriorDec 16, 2022

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.

Show threadDerek PriorFeb 1, 2023

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.

Show threadDerek Prior

Glad y'all are enjoying this feature. A small number of you are reporting that Mastodon accounts are not being recognized as such in our UI.

We make a NodeInfo request to non-obvious hosts to check server metadata. Requests to some hosts are hitting our aggressive timeout. We're working on making this process more resilient.

You may have better luck by removing and re-adding the link to re-trigger the check. In any event, links will still function as expected, even for verification.

Feb 1, 2023 at 6:05pmWeb
Show threadMark PhippardFeb 1, 2023
@derekprior I had it in the website previously, it is not recognized until you move it to the new social media links
Show threadkaiserkiwi Feb 1, 2023
@derekprior tried it five times now and it's still not showing. 😕
Show threadDerek PriorFeb 1, 2023
@kaiserkiwi Looks like it's working to me...
Show threadkaiserkiwi Feb 1, 2023
@derekprior hm. I still don't see it. It's also not visible in the app. Is this probably a cache thing?
Show threadkaiserkiwi Feb 1, 2023
@derekprior Ah! I see! It's visible on desktop but not on mobile yet.
Show threadMistyFeb 1, 2023
@derekprior Thanks so much for this! If it still doesn’t seem to be recognizing a request, is there anything on the Mastodon server side you recommend investigating?
Show threadDerek PriorFeb 1, 2023
@misty Looks like that instance is running `hometown`, which we do not recognize as a mastodon instance. We’ve seen this a couple of times today so that might be something we want to add support for.
Show threadMistyFeb 1, 2023
@derekprior Aha, that makes sense. Hometown is a friendly fork with a few additional features that’s kept up to date with mainline Mastodon.
Show threadMistyFeb 1, 2023
@derekprior Since it is actually Mastodon, it hopefully shouldn't be difficult to support. Let me know if there's information I can provide that would help.
Show threadDerek PriorFeb 3, 2023

@misty If you remove and re-add your link, it should now be recognized with a mastodon icon.

We will likely reprocess existing links at some point, but want to fix a few more things first.

Show threadMistyFeb 3, 2023
@derekprior It worked! Thank you so much - lightning fast response time there.
Show threadwakest likes your bugs ⁂Feb 2, 2023
@derekprior @misty hey @darius, Github might add support specifically for Hometown (:
Show threadDarius KazemiFeb 2, 2023
@liaizon @derekprior @misty happy to help on my end as the maintainer if needed
Show threadJames YoungFeb 2, 2023
@darius @liaizon @derekprior @misty it worked ok for me, on Hometown
Show threadBrian ShawFeb 1, 2023
@derekprior Nice!
Show threadLinh PhamFeb 1, 2023
@derekprior Absolutely love to see the change and awesome work by the team! Would love to see Flickr as an option in the future ^_^
Show threadKevin MarksFeb 1, 2023
@derekprior The next phase is for you to check links back have rel=me on and show the green ticks too. Then I don't need to use the browser plugin. https://www.kevinmarks.com/distributed-verify.html
Distributed Verification

Show threadmartzmakesFeb 1, 2023
@derekprior I'm writing a serverless fork of mastodon... not technical a mastodon server... is there some required information needed in the NodeInfo call I can provide to get similar verification or should I just spoof whats in a regular mastodon response?
Show threadJulian ReschkeFeb 2, 2023
@derekprior Indeed, that helped. Thanks!
Show threadAdrianna PińskaFeb 2, 2023

@derekprior FYI I was having the same problem, and it was my adblocker -- temporarily disabling it made the check work.

(I figured it out after I watched someone's screen recording in which it was clear that the check was supposed to happen on the edit screen, before you save -- and I could see that absolutely nothing was happening for me.)