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Ariadne Conill 🐰

you would like to "verify" yourself on the fediverse? great, no problem.

1. go to namecheap.com
2. register a domain, get their cpanel hosting or whatever.
3. put some website up on said domain, include something like <a href="[YOUR FEDIVERSE PROFILE LINK HERE]" rel="me">Follow me on the Fediverse!!!!!11111oneoneone.</a> in your HTML. the rel="me" is important.
4. link to your website in your fediverse profile.
5. the software will mark your relationship as verified, have a nice day

myself and a few others built this in 2018, seriously, we solved this problem years ago. it is how the internet works.

7 Nov 2022 at 3:48 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
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Ariadne Conill 🐰

the best part is that this is really easy to do using wordpress, the software supports creating rel=me links very easily!

7 Nov 2022 at 3:50 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
Ariadne Conill 🐰

you can also do this with github, because we were able to talk github into doing it.

but you shouldn't use github for the same reason you shouldn't use twitter.

7 Nov 2022 at 3:50 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
Kris NΓ³va
Ariadne Conill 🐰

@nova in github's defense, they provide a lot more utility than twitter ever has, but still, centralized mega services are bad :)

7 Nov 2022 at 5:59 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
Brian Swetland

@ariadne @nova A big difference is while github does have things like their issue tracker and whatnot which are proprietary, the core functionality is just build around git and its protocols and nothing prevents me from mirroring my repositories elsewhere, or just using github as a publication service for my self-hosted repositories, and so on. It's easy for me to not rely on it, which I think is one reason I'm willing to use it.

7 Nov 2022 at 6:03 | Open on chaos.social
Benny Powers

@ariadne since I'm anyways using GitHub, where does it go, in the profile readme?

7 Nov 2022 at 4:46 | Open on social.bennypowers.dev
Aram Zucker-Scharff

@ariadne You can also do it really easily with Glitch, I set up a page to handle this here - glitch.com/~aramzs

7 Nov 2022 at 6:02 | Open on indieweb.social
Max

@ariadne I'm guessing you're a fan of forgefed? It seems pretty neat, but I haven't had time to check it out yet.

7 Nov 2022 at 12:47 | Open on infosec.exchange
vibby :verified_neko:

@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems this except don't use namecheap, in my experience. lol.
porkbun kinda nice though.

7 Nov 2022 at 3:58 | Open on snug.moe
Quinnstmas Tree πŸŽ„

@ariadne @zkat honestly who needs an a tag when you could use a link in the meta tags it feels more semantic as it’s really meta data about the domain

7 Nov 2022 at 4:10 | Open on social.audiovalentine.com
John McCarrick

@ariadne Well thank you kindly, this seems pretty great!

7 Nov 2022 at 4:10 | Open on toot.community
Adam

@ariadne It's great! I love it. Thank you!

7 Nov 2022 at 4:17 | Open on social.librem.one
HRH ginsterbusch

@ariadne or even easier: just use <link type="href" rel="me" href="(my fancy fedi profile url)" /> in the HTML head. not even a need to write out the body .. (in theory, if parsers dont care, a <html><link rel="me" type="href" href="..." /></html> should do).

7 Nov 2022 at 4:48 | Open on kosmos.social
fraggLe!

@ariadne Are these checked by each instance or do they rely on a user's home instance to tell the truth?

7 Nov 2022 at 4:53 | Open on hungryhacker.com
U. Gerhardt πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί

@ariadne
Did that yesterday, works like a charm. πŸ‘
@thilo

7 Nov 2022 at 5:42 | Open on scicomm.xyz
keschi / cache :blobCat_in_box:

@ariadne hmmm well namecheap is namecheap, I'd not recommend them after their disastrous handling of the issue with the support page not asking for 2FA, and their CEO not giving a shit until someone found a publicly accessible php log file

7 Nov 2022 at 6:12 | Open on catcatnya.com
easrng :heart_cyber_pink:

@ariadne Don't want to buy a domain? Become a verified grass-toucher instead with graas.

7 Nov 2022 at 6:20 | Open on cathode.church
Jocelynephiliac :reclaimer:

@ariadne does it need to explicitly be an anchor, or can it be a link tag?

7 Nov 2022 at 6:21 | Open on twipped.social
wow funderscore posts on fedi!

@ariadne I have a website but too lazy to put a rel=me.

7 Nov 2022 at 6:38 | Open on mamot.fr
mirabilos

@ariadne oh wow, the a element even has a rel attribute permitted in XHTML/1.1, so this is useful

7 Nov 2022 at 7:45 | Open on toot.mirbsd.org
easrng :heart_cyber_pink:

me check the date before replying challenge (impossible)

7 Nov 2022 at 9:29 | Open on cathode.church
Louis Couture :quebec: πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

@ariadne ok this one is gonna be complicated for the average joe to be honest

7 Nov 2022 at 12:08 | Open on qoto.org
FyreSec (She/Her)
bertr4n

@ariadne it's very true that authentification of digital identity shouldn't be a feature of a centralized or distributed social network, where we end up being stuck with "login with Google/Facebook/mastodon.social" ; also we may need several verifiable digital identities not necessarily linked to our legal/public/national identity, that should only be an option. In that sense, the Blockchain could be a good solution to authentication both for digital (anonymous or not) ID.

7 Nov 2022 at 13:44 | Open on witches.live
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