Brutkey

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

Verification on Mastodon and the wider Fediverse works differently to most social networks. Symbols like or ✅ or the word "verified" are NOT verifications as anyone can add them to their profiles.

Verification on here works through special links on an account's official website. You can find out how to create a verified link in this guide:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-verify-my-account

For example we know @wikipedia@wikis.world is official as their profile has a verified link to their website.

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Bård H. (lvl 48 🇳🇴)
@baardhaveland@snabelen.no

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How do you get the "verification" to work with accounts on other social media?

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@baardhaveland@snabelen.no

The system used for verification (called rel=me) wasn't invented by Mastodon, it's meant to be a universal open standard.

In theory all social networks should have a rel=me tag on their profile links, which would allow people to easily verify by just linking to their accounts elsewhere.

Unfortunately Meta, Google, Twitter etc refuse to use rel=me, which makes it impossible to verify their accounts on other platforms.

Fedi platforms do support rel=me but most others don't 🙁

Bård H. (lvl 48 🇳🇴)
@baardhaveland@snabelen.no

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Thanks
This goes for Bluesky as well, then?

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@baardhaveland@snabelen.no

I'm not sure to be honest!

There are two ways rel=me can work:

-Link to your account on a platform that allows custom HTML code (like a website)

-Link to your account on a platform that automatically includes rel=me tags on its links

If you don't have a website, try just linking to your Mastodon account from whatever platform you want to try, and to your account on the other platform from your Mastodon account.