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The (green-ticked) Neil Gaiman
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@neilhimself and when he arrives, we are already here — waiting and doing our antics, like the Endless. @neilhimself but how can we be sure that this comes from Neil himself? Wait, there's a way! And only 8$ away! @yimidu if you click his profile, you’ll find a link to neilgaiman.com with a green highlight. That means he (or a designated substitute) has linked back to the profile demonstrating both are controlled by the same entity. Here’s instructions on how you can set your own profile to be verified, no faceless corporation required. 🙂 https://chaosandpenguins.com/2022/11/06/getting-verified-on-mastodon/ @neilhimself If you link to his Mastodon profile from neilgaiman.com and put rel="me" in the href, Mastodon will put a green-check next to the SITE in the profile, confirming identity @joefulgham @neilhimself Interesting, the check shows when using a browser but not when viewed in the Android app. 🤔 @neilhimself I’m new here too but willing to go anywhere Neil treads in the event of other social media collapse. Keeping the fire warm for ya! 🪵🔥   @liaizon First before we go any further, I just want to unambiguously state that [j/k] in the above post stands for ‘Just Kidding'. Now, /all that said/,... Unverified how/in what sense..? As we both well know for this past five years or so, the only form of ‘verification’ that we have here in Mastodon is the <rel="me"> attribute at an external website, and that 'verification' still seems to be active as is seen in the green text at Neil's Mastodon profile..? ....And so I'm not sure if I've made this “Discourse” better or worse for having posted this reply. Nevertheless, here it is... 🙏 @liaizon Wow that's weird; I check just now from an Incognito window with no login on any server, and this screenshot was what I got... The Fediverse is being wonky again I'm sure. 😕  @neilhimself Nice work using the meta-data link verification feature. I wish more people would (especially if they already have personal sites, blogs, etc they can easily cross-link). Welcome to the Fediverse, Neil! Hey @neilhimself ! I followed your invitation link from the “other place” and now I’m here poking around too! You’re my first follow so hopefully I get a follow back…maybe? 🤞 @neilhimself Read the CoC and cross posting a boost that's political in nature, news or advocacy for (insert group) is not allowed. If you do so you must turn on permanent notice for Sensitive Content and label it also as Content Warning w short description so if anyone boosts you, they won't get banned for nonlabeled boost across instances (servers/groups). @bellesapepper_37 @neilhimself A copy of CoC for mastodon.social can be found here: https://gist.github.com/Gargron/c2925b9ad7f5e87bf40c57a48de50474 Usage of Content Warning can be found here: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/posting/#cw Kindly note that intentionally spreading false or misleading information are violation of server rules: https://mastodon.social/about cc: @Gargron @krysanify @neilhimself Right, not spreading disinformation. Each server has different rules re cross posting. Thanks for tagging Gargon. Example? mstn.social differs from maston.social as do other servers CoC. Your link, it specifically mentions UNTAGGED items which means? You need to turn on the sensitive content. If it's any of the specific items also use cw. It's basically read only unless you tag. BTW these are on the front sign up page.   @neilhimself I thought you aren’t on any social media 😂 I’m coming from Tumblr. Never really used Twitter before. You are the sole reason I applied an account here. Just wanting to say hi and thanks for the push for me to venture into other social platforms.  @neilhimself welcome, make yourself comfortable.  @neilhimself Welcome! There’s a whole bunch of SFF authors on wandering.shop, if you ever feel like visiting there. 🙂 @neilhimself Welcome, sir! Let's figure out together how this works. It says I'm in a queue to follow you, whatever that means, but I'll take that for now! @neilhimself Welcome! Emo tried to introduce us in NZ just before the Covid lockdown there. I'm back in Australia now, writing my things. Perhaps we'll meet one day. Meanwhile, glad for all your success, and wishing you only more. @neilhimself Hi Neil, welcome to Mastodon! Delighted that you’ve joined the party @neilhimself There goes the neighborhood. 😅 Welcome, delighted to see you and best wishes to Lake Menomin from a former Stout student (only a year before absconding to Europe as your really lousy replacement, I imagine). @neilhimself Welcome! This may ease managing both Twitter and Mastodon: crossposter.masto.donte.com.br The creator of the tool makes it available for anyone, as a free service at the address above, or it can be deployed separately, in a more professional setup, for individual use. @neilhimself yes! Seeing my favorite people end up here from Twitter is strangely heart warming! @neilhimself I can't get a profile photo to load, least of all any ticks.😅. Welcome to the other side. @neilhimself, thanks for inviting us to join you. (Illustration by Charles Vess from Instructions by Neil Gaiman)  @neilhimself Mr Neil Himself Gaiman. It's great to see you here and it's great to be here @neilhimself Welcome to the "dark side" . . It's not quite like the birdie place, but, give it a few days you'll get used to it. @neilhimself Welcome! Please encourage your followers from time to time to donate to the servers they are on. Mastodon is not run by corporations and I bet lots of hobbyist admins are now struggling to pay for server infrastructure and bandwidth due to the sudden spike in popularity… 💜 @neilhimself that’s sealed the deal for me. If you’re here, I know it’s the place I want to be.  |
@neilhimself Thanks much for this. We can already start tagging him where relevant. 🙏