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   Weasel (weaselx86@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 05:29:32 JST Weasel

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   I figured out how to verify my mastodon account from my github profile page. There were two problems, solved thus:

   (1) Just put the simple mastodon page URL into the github profile "webpage" field; do NOT use the html source mastodon gives you on the profile/verify page.

   (2) After doing (1), delete the github URL from the mastodon profile and then re-add it, to force it to try again to find the link in the github page.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 05:29:32 JST FediTips has moved!

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     Yeah, I think github automatically has the rel="me" attribute on all its links to other profiles.

     This was supposed to be the standard on the internet in order to aid cross-account verification, but many big players refused to use it.

     The verification happens when you save your Mastodon profile, so you have to add your account to the github profile before you save the profile with the link to github.

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     Weasel (weaselx86@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 05:29:33 JST Weasel

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     For verification, what field do I put the link with rel="me" into on my github profile page?