How The Washington Post verified its journalists on Mastodon (washpost.engineering) 4 points by freedmand 3y ago ↗ HN
[–] 2Gkashmiri 3y ago ↗ an article by journalists about mastodon technology and they failed to properly attribute it.>this method is a standard supported by other networks, which means The Post can support verification elsewhere in the future.webfinger.was it that difficult to say? [–] Kye 3y ago ↗ No, microformats: https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-meThey also submitted a patch to Mastodon that had it check the first megabyte of a page (where this would be) rather than give up on pages over 1MB.
[–] Kye 3y ago ↗ No, microformats: https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-meThey also submitted a patch to Mastodon that had it check the first megabyte of a page (where this would be) rather than give up on pages over 1MB.
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 16.0 ms ] thread>this method is a standard supported by other networks, which means The Post can support verification elsewhere in the future.
webfinger.
was it that difficult to say?
They also submitted a patch to Mastodon that had it check the first megabyte of a page (where this would be) rather than give up on pages over 1MB.