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There are already badges that people have. For example, on brands.town, Fox News has a verified badge [0]. [0]: https://brands.town/@FoxNews https://brands.tow

• phoe-krk 4y ago
  These badges are emoji - currently e.g. https://infosec.exchange/@lcamtuf https://infosec.exchange/@lcamtuf has three of them. That's 200% more than you can get on Twitter, and $8 cheaper, too. Actual verification happens via proving that you control a website that links back to your Mastodon profile - see e.g. https://opensource.com/article/22/11/verified-mastodon-website https://opensource.com/article/22/11/verified-mastodon-websi...
• gpm 4y ago
  brands.town is a satire site. The "verified badge" on mastodon is just a satirical emoji. Mastodon does have a mechanism for instances vouching for their users actually having control of a webpage (using rel=me links). Those are the links in green boxes here: https://hachyderm.io/@nova https://hachyderm.io/@nova (It doesn't cost anything, and isn't exclusive to famous people). I assume the person I'm replying to is aware of all of this... but for everyone else...
• duskwuff 4y ago
  > For example, on brands.town, Fox News has a verified badge You realize that this is a parody account that posts pictures of foxes, not the American cable news channel... right?
  • Shank 4y ago
    Of course; that's why I posted it.