How The Washington Post verified its journalists on Mastodon

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4 pointsfreedmand2 comments

an article by journalists about mastodon technology and they failed to properly attribute it.

>this method is a standard supported by other networks, which means The Post can support verification elsewhere in the future.

webfinger.

was it that difficult to say?

They also submitted a patch to Mastodon that had it check the first megabyte of a page (where this would be) rather than give up on pages over 1MB.