@skyblond
@freemo

How to verify accounts

I am trying to verify my Mastodon account, but this isn't working, I have included the verification link on my personal blog (writeAs powered) and also on my Diode.zone account and there are links from here (qoto) to both of those.

It seems that WriteAs is stripping the Rel="me" part out and replacing with nofollow. But I am just pasting the html directly.

How have other people achieved this,? I think the process needs to be really quick and simple, but also robust enough to avoid abuse.

If the Fediverse is to grow this could be essential for getting more high profile people or even business, charities on here.

Thanks for any help, if people could share how have done this successfully ( as quite a few have the green tick) then it helps others do the same, .

Hopefully raise the profile of the Fediverse in general

Paul

This post should now be public

@zleap

@freemo

So... What can I do for you? My verification on my website has the ref attribute, I manually added. But I tried twitter, it dosent support ref attribute, so just my website link is verified.

@skyblond

Nothing sorry, I linked you earlier when the problem was still a bit of a mystery, figured you did something special. Now that we figured out it is stripping only Gargron could help potentially, or if someone out there knows a work around in general.

@zleap

@freemo @skyblond I can ask on the WriteAs forum about this, but on My blog I would add

[linktext](url link) to add a link somewhere, is there a way to add rel="me" in to that using markdown ?

I just copied in the html from my profile on here.so maybe I need to add proper markdown tag.

@zleap

My website use markdown too. But this may changed with different implementations. I use typecho, a lightweight replacement of wordpress. It can identify and show the a tag containing the ref attribute as I pasted.