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@NervousGamedev the problem is that just providing a link is very hard to verify. For example, if all I needed was a simple linkback I could comment on a NYTimes news article with a URL to my Mastodon profile, and link the NYTimes article and be "verified". There are fixes for that but they are tricky and there are many holes in it. The reason why we check for a "rel=me" HTML attribute is that writing unfiltered HTML is typically not allowed by commenting systems

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@darius most social media sites have places on profiles where you can put links that no one else can touch, and that's something that can be scraped. no one else can edit my twitter bio or profile website link on my other socials. if your main internet presence is on instagram and you're joining mastodon, the HTML that displays your public profile data is the most appropriate place to be looking for a link to your mastodon account. you don't need the HTML rel link at that point.

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