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Well, I just got myself "#verified" on my own #Mastodon server, so that was fun - NOT! Here's how I did it, because the default instructions don't work if your main front page to your domain name IS your Mastodon root drive. Because Mastodon does everything dynamically using #RubyOnRails, so there's no "index.html" page to edit to add the required #verification link!

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1. Went to /home/mastodon/live/app/views/layouts/

and edited the file "application.html.haml" to include the following lines at the bottom:

.ownerContainer
%a{:href => "https://westodon.com/@West", rel: "me", class: "centered-link"} Owner's Profile

What this does is make a link at the bottom of your main Mastodon page (it's okay, it gets replaced later with all sorts of other stuff), that's centered on the page, and contains the URL to my profile. So for you, change that URL of course.

...And then I saved it (required admin password/sudo)

2. Cleared the #Ruby cache. This was actually the most complicated part, because it required multiple additional steps that I wasn't expecting.

To clear the cache, you have to run the following line:

RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake tmp:cache:clear

But I got an error. To fix that error, I had to do ALL of the following:

Install Ruby with:
sudo snap install ruby --classic

and then do:
bundle install

and then do:
yarn install

ONLY THEN was I finally able to clear the cache with the part way above on the top of step 2 up there.

3) Then I did this Ruby precompile command:
RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails assets:precompile

4) Then I restarted Mastodon services:
sudo systemctl restart mastodon-*

5) Preferences > Public Profile

Under Public Profile's main "tab", I entered the required "Extra field". Label - "Westodon", Content - "https://westodon.com"
> Save Changes

6) Verification "tab" (Still under Preferences > Public Profile), scrolled ALL the way to the bottom, to the section called "Websites allowed to credit you", and put my "westodon.com" on its own line and hit Enter

7) Finally, under Administration > Server Settings > Appearance, I stuck the following lines in the "Custom CSS" Section:

.ownerContainer {
text-align: center; /* Centers inline content within the container */
}

.centered-link {
/* Optional: further styling for the link itself */
display: inline-block; /* Allows margin: auto for block-level centering if desired, but text-align on parent is usually sufficient for links */
margin: 0 auto; /* This would center a block-level element, but works with inline-block too */
padding: 10px 20px;
background-color: lightblue;
text-decoration: none;
color: #333;
}

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After that, I reloaded my website and BAM! Finally got my verification #checkmark. Now, I'm not sure if ALL of these steps were required, but those are all the steps I did, and when I was done, I was finally verified.

I feel like it should be easier to do this from within the Admin settings directly... /sigh

Getting verified by Bluesky: a surprisingly easy process, no ID upload needed

My Bluesky account now has one thing in common with my pre-2023 Twitter account: a white checkmark inside a blue circle. But unlike the social-media status symbol that I’d spent a couple of weeks in 2014 lightly working the refs at Twitter to get, this one required no ongoing effort on my part and probably wasn’t necessary anyway.

That last part is because I had taken advantage of Bluesky’s domain name-based verification two years ago, after figuring out some wonkiness with WordPress.com domain registrations. That was an easy choice, since converting my Bluesky handle to @robpegoraro.com tied my identity there to a site at which I’ve been writing since the spring of 2011.

But I recognized how a domain-rooted verification regime could break in practice. What if an attacker registered a first name-last name domain to try to con a widely-followed journalist? What if somebody registered a domain name through Bluesky’s option to do that and then had that domain name only point to their own Bluesky profile?

So when Bluesky introduced a decentralized verification system in April, including the option of having a “trusted verifier” organization vouch for your account, I had to try it out. And by “had,” I mean I set it aside for the next month and change until my journalist pal Dwight Silverman, the Houston Chronicle’s longstanding tech columnist, got verified about three weeks ago.

That spurred me to fill out the Google Docs form for Bluesky verification. The form noted that Bluesky management reserved the right to require ID-based verification “at a later date” via an unspecified form of document and outlined such requirements as having an account representing “a real person, registered business, organization, or legitimate entity” and being ranked as “notable within your field and geographic region.”

After I selected “Journalist/News Organization” from an opening list of “Verification Categories,” the form requested my role at my publication, the address of that news organization’s site, and links to three recent stories under my byline. (I leaned on my PCMag affiliation for this part.) An essay-question screen invited up to 500 words of self-promotional copy, which I provided with an elevator-pitch version of my LinkedIn profile.

Twenty-two days later, a “Welcome to Bluesky Verification!” e-mail landed in my inbox. That Monday-evening message brought the heartwarming news that “you are notable and that we’ve confirmed you are who you claim to be, helping other users find and trust your account on the Bluesky app.”

It further advised that I should “avoid changing account names or handles,” not let my account go dormant for too long (no risk!), and refrain from violating Bluesky’s community guidelines.

I can live with all that. I also appreciate that this is the first verification badge which I’ve picked up on social media after playing strictly by a platform’s rules: My Twitter verification started with an IRL chat with a Twitter employee at a journalism conference in 2014, while somebody at Facebook verified my now-deprecated public page without me asking.

I got no such favor at Instagram, and seeing that platform ignore my reports of an obvious impostor has left me exceedingly uninterested in paying for “Meta Verification.” Which means my checkmark at Bluesky may be my only official social-media validation for some time to come, and I’m okay with that.

#authentication #bluecheck #Bluesky #BlueskyVerification #bsky #checkmark #domainNameVerification #FacebookVerification #socialMedia #TwitterVerification #validation #verification #verified

Getting verified by Bluesky: a surprisingly easy process, no ID upload needed

My Bluesky account now has one thing in common with my pre-2023 Twitter account: a white checkmark inside a blue circle. But unlike the social-media status symbol that I’d spent a couple of weeks in 2014 lightly working the refs at Twitter to get, this one required no ongoing effort on my part and probably wasn’t necessary anyway.

That last part is because I had taken advantage of Bluesky’s domain name-based verification two years ago, after figuring out some wonkiness with WordPress.com domain registrations. That was an easy choice, since converting my Bluesky handle to @robpegoraro.com tied my identity there to a site at which I’ve been writing since the spring of 2011.

But I recognized how a domain-rooted verification regime could break in practice. What if an attacker registered a first name-last name domain to try to con a widely-followed journalist? What if somebody registered a domain name through Bluesky’s option to do that and then had that domain name only point to their own Bluesky profile?

So when Bluesky introduced a decentralized verification system in April, including the option of having a “trusted verifier” organization vouch for your account, I had to try it out. And by “had,” I mean I set it aside for the next month and change until my journalist pal Dwight Silverman, the Houston Chronicle’s longstanding tech columnist, got verified about three weeks ago.

That spurred me to fill out the Google Docs form for Bluesky verification. The form noted that Bluesky management reserved the right to require ID-based verification “at a later date” via an unspecified form of document and outlined such requirements as having an account representing “a real person, registered business, organization, or legitimate entity” and being ranked as “notable within your field and geographic region.”

After I selected “Journalist/News Organization” from an opening list of “Verification Categories,” the form requested my role at my publication, the address of that news organization’s site, and links to three recent stories under my byline. (I leaned on my PCMag affiliation for this part.) An essay-question screen invited up to 500 words of self-promotional copy, which I provided with an elevator-pitch version of my LinkedIn profile.

Twenty-two days later, a “Welcome to Bluesky Verification!” e-mail landed in my inbox. That Monday-evening message brought the heartwarming news that “you are notable and that we’ve confirmed you are who you claim to be, helping other users find and trust your account on the Bluesky app.”

It further advised that I should “avoid changing account names or handles,” not let my account go dormant for too long (no risk!), and refrain from violating Bluesky’s community guidelines.

I can live with all that. I also appreciate that this is the first verification badge which I’ve picked up on social media after playing strictly by a platform’s rules: My Twitter verification started with an IRL chat with a Twitter employee at a journalism conference in 2014, while somebody at Facebook verified my now-deprecated public page without me asking.

I got no such favor at Instagram, and seeing that platform ignore my reports of an obvious impostor has left me exceedingly uninterested in paying for “Meta Verification.” Which means my checkmark at Bluesky may be my only official social-media validation for some time to come, and I’m okay with that.

#authentication #bluecheck #Bluesky #BlueskyVerification #bsky #checkmark #domainNameVerification #FacebookVerification #socialMedia #TwitterVerification #validation #verification #verified

Getting verified by Bluesky: a surprisingly easy process, no ID upload needed

My Bluesky account now has one thing in common with my pre-2023 Twitter account: a white checkmark inside a blue circle. But unlike the social-media status symbol that I’d spent a couple of weeks in 2014 lightly working the refs at Twitter to get, this one required no ongoing effort on my part and probably wasn’t necessary anyway.

That last part is because I had taken advantage of Bluesky’s domain name-based verification two years ago, after figuring out some wonkiness with WordPress.com domain registrations. That was an easy choice, since converting my Bluesky handle to @robpegoraro.com tied my identity there to a site at which I’ve been writing since the spring of 2011.

But I recognized how a domain-rooted verification regime could break in practice. What if an attacker registered a first name-last name domain to try to con a widely-followed journalist? What if somebody registered a domain name through Bluesky’s option to do that and then had that domain name only point to their own Bluesky profile?

So when Bluesky introduced a decentralized verification system in April, including the option of having a “trusted verifier” organization vouch for your account, I had to try it out. And by “had,” I mean I set it aside for the next month and change until my journalist pal Dwight Silverman, the Houston Chronicle’s longstanding tech columnist, got verified about three weeks ago.

That spurred me to fill out the Google Docs form for Bluesky verification. The form noted that Bluesky management reserved the right to require ID-based verification “at a later date” via an unspecified form of document and outlined such requirements as having an account representing “a real person, registered business, organization, or legitimate entity” and being ranked as “notable within your field and geographic region.”

After I selected “Journalist/News Organization” from an opening list of “Verification Categories,” the form requested my role at my publication, the address of that news organization’s site, and links to three recent stories under my byline. (I leaned on my PCMag affiliation for this part.) An essay-question screen invited up to 500 words of self-promotional copy, which I provided with an elevator-pitch version of my LinkedIn profile.

Twenty-two days later, a “Welcome to Bluesky Verification!” e-mail landed in my inbox. That Monday-evening message brought the heartwarming news that “you are notable and that we’ve confirmed you are who you claim to be, helping other users find and trust your account on the Bluesky app.”

It further advised that I should “avoid changing account names or handles,” not let my account go dormant for too long (no risk!), and refrain from violating Bluesky’s community guidelines.

I can live with all that. I also appreciate that this is the first verification badge which I’ve picked up on social media after playing strictly by a platform’s rules: My Twitter verification started with an IRL chat with a Twitter employee at a journalism conference in 2014, while somebody at Facebook verified my now-deprecated public page without me asking.

I got no such favor at Instagram, and seeing that platform ignore my reports of an obvious impostor has left me exceedingly uninterested in paying for “Meta Verification.” Which means my checkmark at Bluesky may be my only official social-media validation for some time to come, and I’m okay with that.

#authentication #bluecheck #Bluesky #BlueskyVerification #bsky #checkmark #domainNameVerification #FacebookVerification #socialMedia #TwitterVerification #validation #verification #verified

Getting verified by Bluesky: a surprisingly easy process, no ID upload needed

My Bluesky account now has one thing in common with my pre-2023 Twitter account: a white checkmark inside a blue circle. But unlike the social-media status symbol that I’d spent a couple of weeks in 2014 lightly working the refs at Twitter to get, this one required no ongoing effort on my part and probably wasn’t necessary anyway.

That last part is because I had taken advantage of Bluesky’s domain name-based verification two years ago, after figuring out some wonkiness with WordPress.com domain registrations. That was an easy choice, since converting my Bluesky handle to @robpegoraro.com tied my identity there to a site at which I’ve been writing since the spring of 2011.

But I recognized how a domain-rooted verification regime could break in practice. What if an attacker registered a first name-last name domain to try to con a widely-followed journalist? What if somebody registered a domain name through Bluesky’s option to do that and then had that domain name only point to their own Bluesky profile?

So when Bluesky introduced a decentralized verification system in April, including the option of having a “trusted verifier” organization vouch for your account, I had to try it out. And by “had,” I mean I set it aside for the next month and change until my journalist pal Dwight Silverman, the Houston Chronicle’s longstanding tech columnist, got verified about three weeks ago.

That spurred me to fill out the Google Docs form for Bluesky verification. The form noted that Bluesky management reserved the right to require ID-based verification “at a later date” via an unspecified form of document and outlined such requirements as having an account representing “a real person, registered business, organization, or legitimate entity” and being ranked as “notable within your field and geographic region.”

After I selected “Journalist/News Organization” from an opening list of “Verification Categories,” the form requested my role at my publication, the address of that news organization’s site, and links to three recent stories under my byline. (I leaned on my PCMag affiliation for this part.) An essay-question screen invited up to 500 words of self-promotional copy, which I provided with an elevator-pitch version of my LinkedIn profile.

Twenty-two days later, a “Welcome to Bluesky Verification!” e-mail landed in my inbox. That Monday-evening message brought the heartwarming news that “you are notable and that we’ve confirmed you are who you claim to be, helping other users find and trust your account on the Bluesky app.”

It further advised that I should “avoid changing account names or handles,” not let my account go dormant for too long (no risk!), and refrain from violating Bluesky’s community guidelines.

I can live with all that. I also appreciate that this is the first verification badge which I’ve picked up on social media after playing strictly by a platform’s rules: My Twitter verification started with an IRL chat with a Twitter employee at a journalism conference in 2014, while somebody at Facebook verified my now-deprecated public page without me asking.

I got no such favor at Instagram, and seeing that platform ignore my reports of an obvious impostor has left me exceedingly uninterested in paying for “Meta Verification.” Which means my checkmark at Bluesky may be my only official social-media validation for some time to come, and I’m okay with that.

#authentication #bluecheck #Bluesky #BlueskyVerification #bsky #checkmark #domainNameVerification #FacebookVerification #socialMedia #TwitterVerification #validation #verification #verified

Радиобаттон Авито с функцией чекмарка: спорный паттерн или гениальное решение?

Недавно в своём тг-канале я разместил пост о том, что в мобильном приложении Авито в сценарии создания объявления содержится неочевидное решение, которое противоречит ментальной модели пользователя и фактически является дарк-паттерном.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/921948/

#Даркпаттерн #uiпаттерны #авито #мобильное_приложение #radiobutton #checkmark

I'm having no luck with getting link #verification working on my profile. I've got a rel="me" link on my website bengleason.net. The site is https, and the rel link is visible in plain old html. And I've edited and reedited my profile to try to trigger verification. All without any #checkmark on my #profile.

This all worked fine on other instances, so it's a mystery why it won't work on Mastodon.online.

Does anyone have any advice?

Musk and Twitter Blue: A story from the new book "How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter"
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/24/technology/elon-musk-twitter-blue.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
#verification #twitterblue #checkmark #elonmusk #identity #twitter #fraud #-

People were complaining about space karen charging 8USD/month for a checkmark..

Let me welcome you to shmeta, where a checkmark is 16.99EUR/month! Hahah

#checkmark #verification

@glennf I don’t get it. I’m so happy here I just bought a #masto server. I’d rather spend that money to get my own feed than an $8 blue lemming #checkmark.

#Twitter verified fake #Disney account, claims dead celebs subscribe to #TwitterBlue

Twitter's big #checkmark transition brought more of the chaos that has typified Elon #Musk 's run as owner and CEO of the social network.

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1933921

So #Elon is just buying #TwitterBlue for accounts?

How much of a dumpster fire does #Twitter have to be in order for the CEO to force people to have the #checkmark?

#Mastodon #TwitterMigration #BlueCheck

Has this comparison been made yet?

That's how the #verified and #checkmark discussions look to me.

Some were dying for it, then were disgusted by it, others were disgusted by it, now are dying for it. hehehehe kind of funny

#Fediverse might be the cure, who knows, let's see!

We’ve lost our blue Czech Mark.
If you find him warm him please contact the Blue Man Group.

#checkmark #czech #wordplay #humor

@stopthatgirl7 also hilarious that he once complained that the #checkmark was a “lords and peasants system”. Nothing screams lords and peasants more than the "king" anointing some favourites with the blue tick. I can't wait for the acolytes to get in a twist trying to explain how this is different and acceptable.

A reminder to everyone: don’t pay for the #checkmark on #Twitter. Now that #legacyverification is gone, the #bluechecks stick out like a sore thumb on profiles, so better not pay for it to avoid the ridicule. #TwitterVerification #FakeVerification

A reminder to everyone: don’t pay for the #checkmark on #Twitter. Now that #legacyverification is gone, the #bluechecks stick out like a sore thumb on profiles, so better not pay for it to avoid the ridicule. #TwitterVerification #FakeVerification

A reminder to everyone: don’t pay for the #checkmark on #Twitter. Now that #legacyverification is gone, the #bluechecks stick out like a sore thumb on profiles, so better not pay for it to avoid the ridicule. #TwitterVerification #FakeVerification

A reminder to everyone: don’t pay for the #checkmark on #Twitter. Now that #legacyverification is gone, the #bluechecks stick out like a sore thumb on profiles, so better not pay for it to avoid the ridicule. #TwitterVerification #FakeVerification

"Please just take the #checkmark away!" How #Twitter devalued its top status symbol and what it can do now https://www.getflack.com/p/please-just-take-the-checkmark-away

"While the legacy blue checkmark was positioned as a luxury good, the new #TwitterBlue became marketed like an inferior good."

Quick everyone! #Twitter's back, act mean so they'll think we're cool!!! #twittermigration #twitterexodus #checkmark #twitterblue #twexit

Twitter Blue subscribers will be able to hide their blue checkmarks to avoid the shame

#twitter #checkmark #funny

More #CkeckMarks for sale

Facebook's move to monetize the #checkmark comes after Elon Musk announced a similar move last year with Twitter's coveted blue verified check mark, which was *previously* used to signal that an account of a celebrity, journalist, politician or other public figure isn't fake.
Musk's plan to charge users $8 a month for the check mark is seen as a way to make Twitter less reliant on advertising revenue, but a proliferation of #fake accounts impersonating major brands prompted Twitter to pause the rollout of the subscription service in November.

https://www.cnet.com/news/social-media/meta-launches-paid-verification-system-for-facebook-instagram/

Want a cool green checkmark linking to all the rest of your Fediverse accounts like mine?

Here's a relatively simple guide explaining how to do that!
https://opensource.com/article/22/12/verified-mastodon-pgp-keyoxide
#keyoxide #verification #profile #checkmark #mastodon

Twitter said it fixed ‘verification.’ So I impersonated a senator (again).

Elon #Musk said #Twitter would begin authenticating users who pay $8 for Blue. Our tech columnist was still able to get a #checkmark for an impostor Sen. Ed Markey.
#verification

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/05/twitter-blue-verification/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_homepage

How long ’til he rolls out #Patreon-like #birdsite #checkmark price tiers?

How to get the desirable GREEN 🐸☘️🟢🥦🤢🥬 checkmark that verifies your account on Mastodon.✔️ #verified #checkmark #verifiedbadge
https://opensource.com/article/22/11/verified-mastodon-website

How to get the desirable GREEN 🐸☘️🟢🥦🤢🥬 checkmark that verifies your account on Mastodon.✔️ #verified #checkmark #verifiedbadge
https://opensource.com/article/22/11/verified-mastodon-website

How to get the desirable GREEN 🐸☘️🟢🥦🤢🥬 checkmark that verifies your account on Mastodon.✔️ #verified #checkmark #verifiedbadge
https://opensource.com/article/22/11/verified-mastodon-website

How to get the desirable GREEN 🐸☘️🟢🥦🤢🥬 checkmark that verifies your account on Mastodon.✔️ #verified #checkmark #verifiedbadge
https://opensource.com/article/22/11/verified-mastodon-website

Twitter opens account verification applications to the public under new guidelines - The coveted blue badge may soon be within your reach. Twitter announced today it w... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/g1cvFg9niK4/ #accountverification #identitymanagement #bluecheckmark #socialmedia #bluecheck #checkmark #verified #twitter #social #verify #tc

Twitter to relaunch account verifications in early 2021, asks for feedback on policy - Twitter announced today it’s planning to relaunch its verification system in 2021, and will now beg... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/yzVfAlmJCbM/ #accountverification #bluecheckmark #verification #socialmedia #checkmark #twitter #social #policy