I forgot to verify the ActivityPub

I was just alerted by someone that the profile on Mastodon doesn’t have an verified ActivityPub linkage. So it’s high time I corrected that as I now see that 100% there’s no linkage, just some bare text dropped into the verification table. Mastodon is likely going to need the ActivityPub path verified in it’s own little way by placing the special “link” with the “rel” tags set to “me” so that it can prove out I have some authoring/authorship on one URL that can be read easily by the other side of that linkage. Let’s see if that works or not.

Also I’m going to attempt to drop the meta tag that proves authorship on this site for things that I share too. Again for attribution purposes. That however needs to be an HTML meta tag embedded somewhere within this doc. Let me see if I can figure that out or not. I’ll try it first as inline code, as I don’t have a raw html editor in WordPress.com that I know of.

<meta name="fediverse:creator" content="@carpetbomberz@mastodon.online">

This likely will get ignored because it’s in pre-formatted text tag.

Still looking for raw HTML input,…

<meta name="fediverse:creator" content="@carpetbomberz@mastodon.online">

And this is a code block. Still not an raw html box. Feels like meta tags can only be directly added if I had access to the actual header files (which WordPress.com doesn’t allow for the free/unpaid versions). So I’ll publish this and see what happens. Likely the meta tag will just get filtered out and ignored. But at LEAST I have tried to tie/bind the two identities together.