aevaApr 23, 2023

I came across a neat browser extension today. It looks for "rel=me" links pointing to mastodon profiles, and puts it in a little list for you to review.

In other words, you visit a website, and if tells you if there are any mastodon accounts associated to the website.

http://streetpass.social

StreetPass for Mastodon

StreetPass: Find your people on Mastodon

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@aeva please tell an old duffer where to put rel=me (nice answers please)
Apr 23, 2023 at 1:13pmWeb
Show threadAndrewApr 23, 2023
@JohnLoader6 it's an invisible tag you can put on a link that says "this is also me", so you can link your website and Mastodon profile and so on, and then things like search engines, and this extension, and the Mastodon "verified links" feature can understand that both pages in some sense represent the same real-world person and do… whatever they do with that information
Show threadErnestoApr 23, 2023
@JohnLoader6 you need to go to your mastodon settings (in your browser, not inside an app), then profile, and you’ll see a section titled “verification”.
There you’ll see the code you need to include in your website to link to your mastodon profile, that includes the rel=me attribute. Just put it inside the html link to your mastodon profile.
After doing this, you can include your website url between the 4 links you can show in your mastodon profile, and it’ll get a verified label.
Show threadEric A. MeyerApr 23, 2023
@JohnLoader6 @aeva From one old duffer to another, hopefully this clarifies it a bit: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2022/11/30/how-to-verify-site-ownership-on-mastodon-profiles/
How to Verify Site Ownership on Mastodon Profiles

Like many of you, I’ve been checking out Mastodon and finding more and more things I like.  Including the use of XFN (XHTML Friends Network) semantics to verify ownership of sites you link from your profile’s metadata!  What that means is, you can add up to four links in your profile, and if you have […]

Show threadtvlerApr 23, 2023
@Meyerweb hey Eric glad you found StreetPass interesting! Big fan of your work