I have a couple of Mastodon accounts and these and countless other Fediverse sites use a very useful method for verifying account ownership. To quote:
Verifying your identity on Mastodon is for everyone. Based on open web standards, now and forever free. All you need is a personal website that people recognize you by. When you link to this website from your profile, we will check that the website links back to your profile and show a visual indicator on it.
Here's how
Copy and paste the code below into the HTML of your website. Then add the address of your website into one of the extra fields on your profile from the "Edit profile" tab and save changes.
The code for my own Cornovia Postcards profile is:
<a rel="me" href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vibracobra23">Mastodon</a>The problem seems to be that in rendering the above code, Wikidot strips the rel="me" part, defeating the purpose of the code itself. If you take a look at the profile page for my Cornovia Postcards account on Mastodon at https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vibracobra23, you'll see that the eBid Profile and Linkstack links are both verified, whereas the Wikidot link isn't. I've left the verification link (as is) on the Wikidot website in question so that anyone can have a look. I've also tried it within the [ [ html ] ] block and the iframe strips everything. I also have a mastodon.social account and I know that Wikidot links don't verify there either.
I know that a lot of people use Mastodon, Pixelfed and other Fediverse sites these days and it would be very useful if people could verify their Wikidot sites. Does anyone know of a workaround that might work?
Thanks in advance.
"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." ~ André Gide





