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You can now verify your Threads profile on Mastodon (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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On my Threads profile, I changed my featured link to be my Mastodon profile URL.

Then, on my Mastodon profile, I changed one of the featured links to be my Threads profile URL.

After I saved that change, my Mastodon profile showed a green verification checkmark next to my Threads profile URL. Success!

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is the first and second step in the EEE cycle. They are embracing Mastodon by allowing instances to connect to theirs, and they are extending it by providing a verification service for all Mastodon users - a service which is conveniently dependent on Meta as a centralized authority. Eventually every celebrity will rely on Meta to get verified and Meta will use this to extinguish independent Mastodon instances.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This isn't entirely true. Verification on Mastodon isn't verifying your account for a shiny badge, it's verifying ownership of sites that you link on your profile. If you add a link to a website, and that website links back to your profile, Mastodon will show that one link as verified. But that link needs a special rel="me" attribute to count for verification, which is what Threads now supports.

I am absolutely sure Threads is an attempt at EEE, but this specific feature is a good thing imo. I'd love to see more sites support rel=me links for simple cross-platform account (ownership) verification