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Ted M. Young@Mastodon Hah, wow, those "instructions" are **terrible**.
"Put a link to your Mastodon profile on your website or webpage. The important part is that the link has to have a `rel="me"` attribute on it. Then edit your Mastodon profile and put the address of your website or web page in one of your four profile fields. Save your profile, that's it!"
What now? Website or webpage (is there a difference)? Where do I put the `rel="me"`? Does it matter? What if I'm using Markdown to generate the link, then what? Oh, and "website or web page", wait, is it "webpage" or "web page"?
Can you maybe provide an example or two? Or a link to where this is already documented? I know what you're trying to do, but a bit more hand-holding here would do a world of good for those less technically inclined.
Steven SandovalI put the `rel=` key=value pair into an anchor tag with an `href=` of a hyperlink. Example: the sidebar markdown file of my ikiwiki blog at reboil.com :
https://reboil.com/gitweb/BK-2020-08-1.git/blob/5dc54d944d24710cc0833eb9a15a0c3e3e35c35f:/sidebar.mdwn#l1
@jitterted @Mastodon I can get away with this because Ikiwiki passes simple HTML tags like the following from the markdown to the rendered HTML unchanged.
```
<a rel="me" href="https://twit.social/@baltakatei">Mastodon</a>
```
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296 Posts, 54 Following, 18 Followers · /ˈbɑːltəkʊteɪ/. Knows some chemistry and piping stuff. TeXmacs user. Twitter refugee.