Twitter's verification: Either jump through all these hoops and cross all your fingers, or wait for a man-child to buy the entire company and spend $8 on something that will eventually lose all meaning.
Mastodon verification: Add your website to your profile and then your profile on your website as a regular HTML anchor link with `rel="me"` and you're done.
Far more straightforward and far more sensible for the format really. Validating web presence with other web presence
@DavidDarnes I love the user empowerment and democratisation behind that.
@DavidDarnes I particularly love that the verification is only visible on someone's profile, not on your timeline, which inadvertently removes its problematic *status symbol* connotation
@rafa oh I didn’t think of that, good point!