Adding verified links to your Mastodon profile

Mastodon allows you to add up to five links to display on your profile. You can easily verify yourself as the owner of the links in your profile metadata if you have full control of the page. However there are some services that you can still verify despite that.

In these examples I use my own account information and you will substitute with yours. I’m also performing this on Desktop so steps may vary on mobile website and apps.

Github:

• Open your Github Profile: https://github.com/donohoe
• Click the Edit profile button.
• In place of your personal site, paste the link to your mastodon profile.
• Click Save.

Twitter:

• Go to your Profile page settings: https://twitter.com/settings/profile
• Make a copy of your existing Bio if you’d like to use it afterwards.
• Paste in the link to your mastodon profile as the Bio.
• Click Save.
• After saving, Twitter removes the leading https:// but that’s ok.

Web Site:

• This assumes you are able to edit the HTML directly. If so, add this:

<a rel="me" href="https://octodon.social/@donohoe">Mastodon</a>

Update your Mastodon account

• After all (or any) of these steps, return to your Mastodon profile and edit it.
• Add the relevent profile link and label in the “Profile metadata”.
• Click Save changes.

That should be it.