Technology
This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.
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Rules:
1: All Lemmy rules apply
2: Do not post low effort posts
3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff
4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.
5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)
6: no advertisement posts unless verified as legitimate and non-exploitative/non-consumerist
7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed
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You can self verify on Mastodon as long as you control a domain where you can stick a tag into an HTML page. You just stick a
<a rel="me" href="https://your.mastodon.server/@your-id">Mastodon</a>tag in the head of the page and then reference the page on your Mastodon account. This proves that Mastodon account owns the domain.That's possible just for the owner of a mastodon instance, not for standard users who visit an instance
This has nothing to do with being an owner of an instance. Here's my self verified account on mas.to which I'm not an owner of. When you go to your account preferences there's verification section under your profile:
@yogthos @Suoko Btw, this is a brilliant feature that Mastodon came up with and I'd wish it was adopted by all ActivityPub implementations. I wonder if you could even verify the ownership of other fediverse profiles in a similiar matter. Every once in a while, talks about unified identities across the fediverse re-emerge and that just might be an extremely simple way of going about it.