Make your website or blog fediverse-ready

In the fediverse, there is no central authority that can verify you. Instead, you link to your fediverse profile from your website, blog, or even some of the larger platforms, like GitHub, in a way that proves that these online identities are connected and controlled by you. This then serves as one of several signals about the authenticity and authority of your fediverse account. And you can also automatically include an author link when people share your site or an article. I’ll walk you through how to set this all up. Verify your account with a website or a blog This works on Mastodon, Friendica, and some other platforms. For the purpose of this tutorial I will use my Mastodon account. To verify that a website or a blog is associated with your fediverse account, you will need to add a link from your website to your account, with a bit of extra code. One option is to add a visible link to your fediverse profile with a rel="me" attribute, like below. The text of the link can be…