Privacy / ease-of-use: https://mastodon.social/@the_angel is founder of eBig Design here in NYC and an artist group working on a Mastodon instance. People love the Mastodon way of verify, but would like to make it easier. They’d like the confidence of confirming Twitter+LinkedIn+Medium but without always having to display these accounts. My job here is to insert links that seem to be rendered from the header.jsx component — any help, advice or suggestions appreciated!

https://preview.redd.it/b09p4v7rl44c1.png?width=2374&format=png&auto=webp&s=c6d2b4820e71057065c828000b2f3f8b5aee7497

ok, please let me know if anyone can merge a branch or patch we are starting to try and see these features

https://preview.redd.it/dly95p40ue3c1.png?width=2466&format=png&auto=webp&s=a9b13024d50696f37d1d72643f98d56176ad468e

To sum up community sentiment

We are content with the “Mastodon way” of verification; however, we have thoughts:

• Beginner-Friendly: Verify is not “beginner-friendly,” especially for services like blogs and social media.
• Privacy: We would like to see attested confidence via, say GitHub, LinkedIn, and Medium but without always having to publicly display the account on our profile.
• Masquerading: We want to prevent individuals from controlling vast numbers of fake profiles for political or non-legitimate purposes.

indeed.

That’s a really good point - what we’d like is to be able to leverage the confidence of confirmed GitHub+LinkedIn+Medium blog without the need to always display them. This is one part of the existing confidence system that could be improved - privacy.