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Verification on Mastodon and the wider Fediverse works differently to most social networks. Symbols like :verified: or ✅ or the word "verified" are NOT verifications as anyone can add them to their profiles.
Verification on here works through special links on an account's official website. You can find out how to create a verified link in this guide:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-verify-my-account
For example we know @wikipedia is official as their profile has a verified link to their website.
How do you get the "verification" to work with accounts on other social media?
p.s. If an account from another server doesn't seem to verify on your server straight away, give it some time (for example try viewing it a few hours later).
I just tried various accounts like @greenpeace and @wikipedia which seemed not to verify immediately on my server, but after a while the green tick did appear on my server too.
Each server independently checks the verifications of profiles it notices, and if it's busy it seems to put verification checks in a queue to deal with later.
Greenpeace and Wikipedia show up as verified for me, but the other two still don't.
It looks like the @arstechnica account may have lost its verified link status. I’m not seeing it either via the app or the Mastodon website.
@FediTips On my Instance, @arstechnica doesn't look to be verified. It does on mastodon.social though.
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