Hmm, that's new. But how are they appearing there? The (first) Verification-URL of accounts shown on lists of accounts (Follower, Following) directly on Mastodon. First I thought, that's part of the update to 4.1.2. But I see it only on #MastodonSocial, not other instances with the same version. What's going on?
I suggested to them they might verify their web link, but as far as I can tell the haven't? Also emailed GNOME via their official website to check if this is their account, but didn't receive a response.
Any ideas? Anyone know someone at GNOME who could verify?
I'm not suggesting it's fake by the way, it's just frustrating not to be able to verify! :)
Here is a free to use idea that someone should capitalize on... Someone should develop an external site to host verifications for free and link peoples verified account to any social media site of theirs.
So a site like wub wub wub.weareverified . whatever will have people sign up, go through a rigorous verification process that can't be bought, and then post users verified account pages like an old school white pages (if anyone remembers those).
Then we can go there to search for our favorite personalities or influencers or companies...
Just an idea... if you do it just give me a credit somehow!
#Verification problem on #Twitter that #Mastodon easily solves with website verification. You could just go to their profile click on the verified link and check that it is the genuine website of the account owner.
'Here’s how The Washington Post verified its journalists on #Mastodon'
"This was a team effort by Rob Cannon, Holden Foreman, Tyler Fisher, Jeremy Bowers, Dylan Freedman, Christian Stroh, Jeremy B. Merrill and others. Special thanks to the Mastodon community for their contributions."
An online system of #verification should show one thing and one thing only: that someone is who they say they are. #Twitter’s old verification system showed that someone was notable by some ill-defined and non-transparent criterion. The new one shows they have a paid subscription. So neither achieves that goal. #BlueTick
@keithwilson you said "An online system of #verification should show one thing and one thing only: that someone is who they say they are."
And that's what it did. That's all it did. The fact you interpreted it as something else does not change that. The Blue Check next to a journalist told me that journalist was who they said they were.