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.
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.
@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.)
Derek Prior
Adrianna Pińska