How to Verify Your Threads Profile on Mastodon for the Fediverse

Meta Adds Support for Verifying Threads Profile on Mastodon

As of Wednesday, Meta made it possible to verify your Threads identity on Mastodon. This was a small step toward supporting the “fediverse,” which is a network of decentralized servers. The company said it would be adding support for “rel=me” links. These are a way for two accounts to become connected by sending links to each other.

Here’s how to make sure that your Mastodon Threads page is real. It is very important that you do things the right way for the proof to work.

Step 1: Add Mastodon Profile to Threads Profile

Add your Mastodon profile to your Threads profile.

Step 2: Add Threads Profile Link to Mastodon Profile

Add your Threads profile link to one of the “Extra fields” in your Mastodon profile.

Step 3: Save Changes

Save the changes in your Mastodon profile.

It is likely that the verification will show up on your Mastodon page as a green bar with a checkmark around the Threads link. The picture below shows what the proof looks like.

When you are done, the Mastodon server “pings” the Threads page to see if it has a “rel=me” web attribute and to make sure that the link in your Threads biography goes back to Mastodon. There is nothing else this “verification” shows besides the fact that you own the Threads page in question. Besides Mastodon, this attribute can also be used to verify your Threads identity on Wikipedia, Gravtar, and Flipboard, all of which are fediverse-friendly sites.

Some Mastodon users, though, are having trouble with this way. A Threads worker said that the team is looking into bugs that have to do with verification. Also, the engineer told us that right now there is no way to prove your Mastodon profile on Threads.

As part of this update, a lot of new features were added to Threads. For example, users can now send a post directly to Instagram direct messages (DMs), add their own alt text to images, and quickly tag someone in a post.

The head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, also wrote about this change in his blog post, calling it one of the “meaningful steps toward accepting open standards and the fediverse.” He also said that a “early form” of Threads on the web has been used by the company inside. If all goes well, the desktop version of the social network will be ready in a few weeks.

Mosseri said last month that the Threads app would not support the fediverse at launch because of technology issues. He did say, though, that the business is “fully committed to building support for ActivityPub.”

When Elon Musk took over Twitter last year, a lot of link checking services were made for Mastodon because people were moving to the fediverse.

Meta, the company that used to be Facebook, has added a new tool to its Threads platform that lets users verify their Mastodon Threads profile. It is possible for users to link their Mastodon and Threads accounts by using “rel=me” links. This is a small step that Meta is taking to help the fediverse, which is a decentralized network of servers.

People on Mastodon who want to verify their Threads page must do things in a certain order. First, they need to link their Mastodon account to their Threads account. Then, in their Mastodon biography, they need to add a link to their Threads profile to one of the “Extra fields.” Finally, the verification should show up on your Mastodon page after you save the changes. Some Mastodon users have said that this way does not work, though, and the Threads team is currently looking into bugs that affect verification.

This update also adds some new features to Threads, like the ability to send a post directly to Instagram direct messages, change the alt text for images, and quickly tag someone in a post. Adam Mosseri, the CEO of Instagram, talked about how important this update is, saying that it is a step toward accepting open standards and the fediverse. Mosseri also said that Meta has been using an early version of Threads on the web for internal purposes, which could mean that a fully working desktop version of the social network is about to be released.

Technical problems mean that the Threads app will not support the fediverse at launch, but Mosseri promised users that Meta is fully committed to adding support for ActivityPub. As the fediverse has grown, many link verification services for Mastodon have been created to help people who are moving to this decentralized network.