- On my Threads profile, I changed my featured link to be my Mastodon profile URL.
- Then, on my Mastodon profile, I changed one of the featured links to be my Threads profile URL.
- After I saved that change, my Mastodon profile showed a green verification checkmark next to my Threads profile URL. Success!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
But it also represents something bigger: an actual Threads feature from Meta that connects with decentralized social media.
I got this to work in just a few minutes on my Mastodon profile, meaning that a URL to my Threads account now has a green checkmark.
“We’ve also rolled out Threads support for rel=me links to help you verify your identity on platforms like Mastodon,” Mosseri said.
I’ll admit that I didn’t know what rel=me links were when I read Mosseri’s post, so I found a Mastodon support page that explained how they work.
If your eyes are glazing over reading all that, never fear: I found it was ultimately pretty straightforward to make my Mastodon account show a verified checkmark for my Threads profile.
But now that the company rolled out this verification feature that works on non-Threads platforms, I’m starting to believe that we’ll actually see ActivityPub support in Threads proper someday.
I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Tldr this isn’t really anything new for Mastodon. If you link to a website in your profile, you could verify you own that website (or are a representative of it, ie writer for news or a blog) by having that site link back to your profile with a special
rel="me"attribute. The new thing is that Threads now also supports these links, so linking your Threads account on your Mastodon account can show you have verified that you own that Threads account. This also works with any other site that supports rel=me links for verification.I agree with all y’all that Threads is EEE, but I think this particular feature is a really good thing and I’d love to see more sites implement this as a really simple way to cross-verify (ownership of) accounts