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 +====== How do I get verified on Mastodon? ======
 +Mastodon doesn't have the same concept of verified accounts that Twitter does (or did until radical changes to Twitter's verification system were announced piecemeal on Twitter in early November 2022((https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-elon-musk-verification/))).
  
 +Anyone with the [[faq:verification:why_do_some_people_have_verified_checkmark|verified checkmark in their display name]] has added it as an emoji. It has no functional meaning.
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 +===== If there's no verified accounts, how will people know it's really me? =====
 +You can add verified links to websites controlled by you:
 +  * Your personal website
 +  * Your personal or professional GitHub profile
 +etc.
 +
 +To do this, you must [[faq:verification:profile_url_green_check|add a specially-formatted link to your Mastodon profile]] on the page you wish to verify.
 +
 +===== How much should I trust an account with verified URLs? =====
 +You should trust the URL verification only as much as you trust the user's instance to carry out the verification. For large or familiar instances, that might be quite a lot. Perhaps less for instances you don't know well or at all. This is more complicated than monolithic social media, where a single authority may grant verified status to an account (but often based on an opaque process).