Using Rel=Me

Tourma · March 2, 2025, 9:30am

Hey all, I finally launched my own website. At the moment it’s just a web 1.0 replacement of Caard. What I’m interested in at the moment is to use the implementation of rel=me that Mastodon has. I’ve put the link in my code and made it invisible, but it’s been days and I don’t have the green checkmark on Mastodon.

Does rel=me not work on subdomains?

pixeldesu · March 2, 2025, 6:07pm

I don’t think Mastodon rechecks URLs, or if so, very irregularly. Try re-adding the URL to your website in your profile, possibly even in another field (just switch around the order) to try to get Mastodon to check your URL again, then it should work.

And subdomains etc. don’t matter, you can verify paths/any page with this, not just root domains.

zeyus · March 3, 2025, 1:33pm

Yeah I think it only checks on updates

Looking at the source code, it seems to consider links as “verifiable” which gets processed when you save new links.

github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon

app/models/account/field.rb

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            ACCEPTED_SCHEMES.include?(parsed_url.scheme) &&
              parsed_url.user.nil? &&
              parsed_url.password.nil? &&
              parsed_url.host.present? &&
              parsed_url.normalized_host == parsed_url.host &&
              (parsed_url.path.empty? || parsed_url.path == parsed_url.normalized_path)
          rescue Addressable::URI::InvalidURIError, IDN::Idna::IdnaError
            false
          end
          
          def requires_verification?
            !verified? && verifiable?
          end
          
          def mark_verified!
            @original_field['verified_at'] = self.verified_at = Time.now.utc
          end
          
          def to_h
            { name: name, value: value, verified_at: verified_at }
          end

and

github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon

app/services/update_account_service.rb

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            def authorize_all_follow_requests(account)
              follow_requests = FollowRequest.where(target_account: account)
              follow_requests = follow_requests.preload(:account).reject { |req| req.account.silenced? }
              AuthorizeFollowWorker.push_bulk(follow_requests, limit: 1_000) do |req|
                [req.account_id, req.target_account_id]
              end
            end
          
            def check_links(account)
              return unless account.fields.any?(&:requires_verification?)
          
              VerifyAccountLinksWorker.perform_async(account.id)
            end
          
            def process_hashtags(account)
              account.tags_as_strings = Extractor.extract_hashtags(account.note)
            end
          end

So removing, saving, then adding again should fix it