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

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/trying-to-let-users-add-mastodon-verification-links-need-some-help/249231
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 17, 2022, 4:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trying-to-let-users-add-mastodon-verification-links-need-some-help/249231 "2022-12-17T16:59:15Z")
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### Author: ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2022, 1:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trying-to-let-users-add-mastodon-verification-links-need-some-help/249231/12 "2022-12-18T01:28:43Z")

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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](https://opensource.com/article/22/11/verified-mastodon-website)?

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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/header-submenus/94584/134).

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](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/app/assets/javascripts/pretty-text/addon/allow-lister.js) 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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