Mastodon has a really neat way of implementing verification, using the rel=me microformat. You can edit your Mastodon profile and add up to four links to it. Mine looks like this at the moment: The verification checkmark can be had by embedding a link BACK to your Mastodon profile on another site. My https://simonwillison.net/ and https://til.simonwillison.net/ page headers include the following H
