@Gargron @arstechnica hope to see more utilize this service.

@Gargron @arstechnica “Be like water,” Eugen.✌🏼

@Gargron @arstechnica Hot Dog!

@Gargron , great, I use this feature as well :-)

It always helps to detect when the account is official or not :-)

And I'm glad that verification is free here, on a #Fediverse project, #Mastodon :-)

@Gargron @arstechnica That’s great to see. Self-verified with link verification. I looked and found this syntax on their home page.

<link rel="me" href="https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica">

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/#verification

@Gargron @arstechnica

Dude! Sweeeet! I can stop following the relay bot now

@Gargron @arstechnica awesome, thanks for sharing ⚡

@Gargron What’s the advantage of getting verified, as a #writer ? I tried to figure out how to do so a couple times, but unable to …

@Gargron ?

@Gargron @arstechnica Following the "official" Ars Technica and unfollowing the bot account that served me well until they arrived.

@Gargron @arstechnica

Hello, @arstechnica!

And it’s great to see John Mastodon is hard on the job

@Gargron @arstechnica i've verfied my web snd github but cannot verify my Pixelfed account

@Gargron You need to simplify social media verification. Most people verify Twitch, Patreon, YouTube, Instagram. Check out how easy it is to verify social networks in Discord

rel="me" is too difficult for an ordinary user

@Gargron @arstechnica
Maybe you should charge for this feature. I means, just to cover some expensives...

@Gargron @arstechnica That's good news. There was a bot doing a decent job, but great to have the real thing here (and verified!!!).

Welcome Ars Tecnica, so happy to find you here!

@Gargron @arstechnica

@Gargron @arstechnica A bit odd they’re on the mastodon.social site though - a techsite could do more to put the ‘fedi’ in fediverse

@Gargron @arstechnica what do you mean 'prominent'? Is something being developed?

@Gargron @arstechnica I love that this is an actual way to verify people or organisations, not just to verify that someone has a credit card... Not mentioning any names...

@Gargron @arstechnica Woohoo! I can stop following the bot now.

@Gargron @arstechnica @anildash Imposter: if only it were possible to create @arstechnica on another instance and verify it with a plausible domain, alas

@Gargron @arstechnica well I think anyone can impersonate by placing that rel='me'. Consider what if I just get myself a domain like thisiselonmusk.com and put rel=me there. Will I become Elon Musk?

@Gargron @arstechnica

A statement from Ars on this is here:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/twitter-rival-blueskys-popularity-surges-because-well-you-know-why/?comments=1&comments-page=1

@Gargron @arstechnica Verification remains very tricky to get working. Eventually it happened for our @okaphone account. But right now I'm struggling with this account.

The back link has been in place for about a day (before I tried). I've been clearing caches, logging out and in, modifying my setting in various ways, changing the URL, waiting, tried a-tag and link-tag... but sofar no luck.

Maybe you guys should do some testing on this important functionality and make it a bit more reliable. 🤔