I think this is related to the server checking an external actor for validation. The closest thing to twitter “Verification” mastodon has is the green fields on a profile that only shows if the mentioned site has a back link our something similar.
Yeah, I was joking. Some people only want to be Twitter-verified to look important, and they can get that same pseudo-important look on Mastodon by just putting the blue-checkmark-emoji into their display name. Anyone can do that, so yeah, it certainly doesn’t verify anything…
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:verified:into your display name. 🙃I think this is related to the server checking an external actor for validation. The closest thing to twitter “Verification” mastodon has is the green fields on a profile that only shows if the mentioned site has a back link our something similar.
Yeah, I was joking. Some people only want to be Twitter-verified to look important, and they can get that same pseudo-important look on Mastodon by just putting the blue-checkmark-emoji into their display name. Anyone can do that, so yeah, it certainly doesn’t verify anything…