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one of the big things about mastodon to me is how do you tell someone faking an account from the actual "person" like a journalist. Go to their web page? The pr
by stjohnswarts 4y ago
one of the big things about mastodon to me is how do you tell someone faking an account from the actual "person" like a journalist. Go to their web page? The profile on their "magazine"/"news site"? Is it unique or is there some way via mastodon to find them?
- lucideer 4y agoThere's no formal way for consistent verification of a person across activitypub but Mastodon provides a way of verifying ownership of one or multiple webpages by a specific account. If an account has any links in their bio - if those links are accompanied by a checkmark they're the verified owner of that linked page. Journalists could potentially do this with author pages on their publication's websites if the publication added support. Alternatively many journalists have personal websites/blogs which they may already have verified. For example, Micah Lee & IGD News have both done this on their Mastodon profiles listed above. The other approach is just to self-host your own personal single-user instance as Tony Webster has done.