So many people are joining Mastodon and missing one crucial step: verifying your account!
You might think, “I’m not important, why should I care?” Think about it as a way to protect anyone who follows you. Consider:
1. Someone sets up an account claiming to be you, automatically grabbing real posts from somewhere else
2. They get a bunch of followers
3. They post, “really struggling this month, a little could go a long way” with a link to Cash App
How would any followers know it was a scam?
@cassidyjames Oh that's awful but how do you verify?... :(
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On Mastodon you can only claim to be the owner of a domain like example.com. So your identity is supposed to be your site.
