Trying to let users add Mastodon verification links, need some help

To be sure we’re on the same page, are you trying to allow your users to verify themselves on Mastodon through your Discourse site by doing something similar to what’s outlined here: Get verified on Mastodon with your website | Opensource.com?

If so, maybe prompting users to add the link to either a regular post, or to their bio would work. Either of those would show up in the site’s crawler view. I don’t think it’s possible to override a crawler template from a theme component: Header Submenus - #134 by awesomerobot.

The issue I’m running into is that Discourse automatically strips the rel="me" attribute from the links. Unless there’s a work around for that, the attribute might need to be added to the AllowLister via a plugin. I’m not up to speed on Discourse/Mastodon integration, but this might be something that’s useful for other sites.

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