Testing the fediverse:creator meta tag on my blog.

[stefan@stefanbohacek.online]

It works! Even looking at the post via mastodon.social.

This is really neat!

Now I just have to remember all the different domains I've registered.

[vmstan@vmst.io]

@stefan also shows up here at vmst.io

[stefan@stefanbohacek.online]

@vmstan Nice, thank you for confirming!

Definitely much better approach than needing your site to be approved by each server separately. And you have a lot more control as a creator. Brilliant execution.

[foxy@social.edu.nl]

@stefan @vmstan

Sorry, what better approach are we talking about exactly? I got lost🙈

[stefan@stefanbohacek.online]

@foxy @vmstan I was referring to the original announcement of this feature:

"the feature will only show up for links to moderator-approved websites"

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/07/highlighting-journalism-on-mastodon/

If I remember correctly, your site had to first be trending, and from there it had to be approved by a server's moderator. For each server separately.

But with the current system, we all define which sites can list us as authors and this information federates across all servers. Hope this makes sense!

[foxy@social.edu.nl]

@stefan @vmstan
I was actually already familiar with the original announcement (the one you sent), but not with the current system. Is it documented anywhere?

[stefan@stefanbohacek.online]

@foxy @vmstan Ah, okay, got it.

It may not be officially documented yet, I've seen it mostly just discussed online.

Tagging @andypiper. (Hope you don't mind!)

[andypiper@macaw.social]

@stefan @foxy @vmstan ah, thanks for the reminder! Will need to get this written up.

[sense@mastodon.social]

@andypiper I was struggling to add attribution to my site, and couldn't find anything more “official" than this thread.
Server- and client-side caching didn’t help either. In the end, I found the domain settings by accident, and now it works.

Is there a page that lists all the steps required to make it work more easily?

[andypiper@macaw.social]

@sense oh! yikes, this is pretty old and no, I don't think this is documented properly yet.

One challenge is that we don't have an obvious place in the (developer/admin) docs for this to be added; and user-facing support pages are something we hope to work on soon.

All of that is to say - I'm sorry that this was confusing, I'm glad you found the place to configure it in your account settings, and I have now made a formal note that we need to write this up. https://github.com/mastodon/documentation/issues/1847