Verification on Mastodon and the wider Fediverse works differently to most social networks.
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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.
@FediTips @greenpeace @wikipedia Here is my experience after being inspired by your post some hours ago. Outcasts is only on iOS, not Android or Graphene or F-Droid. I guess I can use the browser. Peertube looks awesome but not user/noob friendly. Looked through dozens of platforms on peertube none with instructions on how to join. No button to click to join to put email address or anything, but you can log on? WHAT?! Why would anyone log on if one has no account? Thats backwards, almost trollish to a new user, and mean. Very cruel actually.
Some platforms are for the owner's family members only which makes me wonder why it is even listed then? Shouldn't those be private? They're in the way of finding the perfect one. And many with really long restrictions, making it scarier than being alone with Peter Thiel, which is odd for a decentralized platform not even allowing political discussion. But none of that matters as I couldnt figure out how to open a peertube account. I cant even like a video let alone follow a vlogger. It is unnecessarily complicated. Im sure if I bang my head for another day or two I can figure it out. I know I can. I'm not new to the internet. But it shouldn't be that way. I think we had this same conversation years ago, when I last tried to enter this world and failed. Maybe it was someone else.
I just wanted to publicly share my experience. I had wanted to remove my videos from Google and post them on Peertube tonight, but I got to go to sleep soon. Have a good night yall. And sorry for sounding grumpy. But may the devs hear my cry. It was pain.
Nov. 30th 2025.
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@FediTips @greenpeace @wikipedia Here is my experience after being inspired by your post some hours ago. Outcasts is only on iOS, not Android or Graphene or F-Droid. I guess I can use the browser. Peertube looks awesome but not user/noob friendly. Looked through dozens of platforms on peertube none with instructions on how to join. No button to click to join to put email address or anything, but you can log on? WHAT?! Why would anyone log on if one has no account? Thats backwards, almost trollish to a new user, and mean. Very cruel actually.
Some platforms are for the owner's family members only which makes me wonder why it is even listed then? Shouldn't those be private? They're in the way of finding the perfect one. And many with really long restrictions, making it scarier than being alone with Peter Thiel, which is odd for a decentralized platform not even allowing political discussion. But none of that matters as I couldnt figure out how to open a peertube account. I cant even like a video let alone follow a vlogger. It is unnecessarily complicated. Im sure if I bang my head for another day or two I can figure it out. I know I can. I'm not new to the internet. But it shouldn't be that way. I think we had this same conversation years ago, when I last tried to enter this world and failed. Maybe it was someone else.
I just wanted to publicly share my experience. I had wanted to remove my videos from Google and post them on Peertube tonight, but I got to go to sleep soon. Have a good night yall. And sorry for sounding grumpy. But may the devs hear my cry. It was pain.
Nov. 30th 2025.
Hi Sage, thanks!
I have a simple non-techical guide that helps people use PeerTube, either as a viewer or as a publisher. The best place to start on the guide is the page at https://fedi.tips/peertube-video-hosting-on-the-fediverse
If you're just wanting to watch PeerTube videos, you don't need a PeerTube account. You can follow and interact with PeerTube accounts and videos entirely within Mastodon: https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-use-peertube-how-do-i-follow-peertube-accounts-from-mastodon
You only really need an account to upload videos: https://fedi.tips/how-to-publish-videos-and-audio-on-peertube/
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@FediTips @greenpeace @wikipedia Here is my experience after being inspired by your post some hours ago. Outcasts is only on iOS, not Android or Graphene or F-Droid. I guess I can use the browser. Peertube looks awesome but not user/noob friendly. Looked through dozens of platforms on peertube none with instructions on how to join. No button to click to join to put email address or anything, but you can log on? WHAT?! Why would anyone log on if one has no account? Thats backwards, almost trollish to a new user, and mean. Very cruel actually.
Some platforms are for the owner's family members only which makes me wonder why it is even listed then? Shouldn't those be private? They're in the way of finding the perfect one. And many with really long restrictions, making it scarier than being alone with Peter Thiel, which is odd for a decentralized platform not even allowing political discussion. But none of that matters as I couldnt figure out how to open a peertube account. I cant even like a video let alone follow a vlogger. It is unnecessarily complicated. Im sure if I bang my head for another day or two I can figure it out. I know I can. I'm not new to the internet. But it shouldn't be that way. I think we had this same conversation years ago, when I last tried to enter this world and failed. Maybe it was someone else.
I just wanted to publicly share my experience. I had wanted to remove my videos from Google and post them on Peertube tonight, but I got to go to sleep soon. Have a good night yall. And sorry for sounding grumpy. But may the devs hear my cry. It was pain.
Nov. 30th 2025.
p.s. If you look at the video publishing guide it includes a list of good PeerTube servers to sign up at.
I know JoinPeerTube.org is a bit overwhelming, but the server list on my article is much simpler.
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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-accountFor 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?
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How do you get the "verification" to work with accounts on other social media?
The system used for verification (called rel=me) wasn't invented by Mastodon, it's meant to be a universal open standard.
In theory all social networks should have a rel=me tag on their profile links, which would allow people to easily verify by just linking to their accounts elsewhere.
Unfortunately Meta, Google, Twitter etc refuse to use rel=me, which makes it impossible to verify their accounts on other platforms.
Fedi platforms do support rel=me but most others don't
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The system used for verification (called rel=me) wasn't invented by Mastodon, it's meant to be a universal open standard.
In theory all social networks should have a rel=me tag on their profile links, which would allow people to easily verify by just linking to their accounts elsewhere.
Unfortunately Meta, Google, Twitter etc refuse to use rel=me, which makes it impossible to verify their accounts on other platforms.
Fedi platforms do support rel=me but most others don't
Thanks
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Thanks
This goes for Bluesky as well, then?I'm not sure to be honest!
There are two ways rel=me can work:
-Link to your account on a platform that allows custom HTML code (like a website)
-Link to your account on a platform that automatically includes rel=me tags on its links
If you don't have a website, try just linking to your Mastodon account from whatever platform you want to try, and to your account on the other platform from your Mastodon account.
