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two screenshots. on the left: the profile for @stephenfry@mastodonapp.uk - it includes a Website link to stephenfry.com, where the link has a checkmark and is colored green. on the right: the profile for @stephfry@mastodonapp.uk with a green checkmark (as an emoji) in the username, with only 583 followers and no verified website

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two screenshots. on the left: the profile for @stephenfry@mastodonapp.uk - it includes a Website link to stephenfry.com, where the link has a checkmark and is colored green. on the right: the profile for @stephfry@mastodonapp.uk with a green checkmark (as an emoji) in the username, with only 583 followers and no verified website
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Dr. Casey Fiesler (cfiesler@hci.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Nov-2022 22:07:41 JST Dr. Casey Fiesler

Now that we're starting to see more impersonation accounts on Mastodon, a reminder that verified websites are a thing. It's not perfect, but implementable at the individual level, and this is how we know for example which of these is the real @stephenfry - and it's not the one with the meaningless checkmark. :)

In conversation Saturday, 26-Nov-2022 22:07:41 JST from hci.social permalink