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 user

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...