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@Sainteetpoete @jasontucker if LinkedIn allowed you to put a special piece of code in your LinkedIn profile, then you would automatically get a little check mark on your Mastodon profile next to your LinkedIn link on your profile.

Mastodon supports this already, but LinkedIn would need to as well

@darius @jasontucker . This would be really cool. Because for all of the craziness of the bird app, the one thing we could be sure of is that people who were verified were who they said they were. At least pre Elmo

@Sainteetpoete @darius Yup, using a 3rd party site that people in your space recomize as a place that only you can make a change to (your personal website, linkedin, IMDB, your book publishers website) would help prove you are who you say you are.

@jasontucker @Sainteetpoete @darius

@KevinMarks built a browser version for this type of rel-me distributed verification which is clever: https://www.kevinmarks.com/distributed-verify.html

One of my favorite uses is on Huffduffer from @adactio. I give the service my website and it automatically fetches all my linked social services via rel-me. Example: https://huffduffer.com/chrisaldrich (Importantly, I don't have to type in/maintain any of the "elsewhere" profile section.)

More details & examples here: https://indieweb.org/rel-me

@jasontucker @Sainteetpoete @darius

Incidentally, @KevinMarks is the reason that Mastodon includes/uses rel-me for this type of verification scheme. Thanks Kevin!

@chrisaldrich @jasontucker @Sainteetpoete @KevinMarks yes, I think it's a great lil solution!