Twitter's verification: Either jump through all these hoops and cross all your fingers, or wait for a man-child to buy the entire company and spend $8 on something that will eventually lose all meaning.
Mastodon verification: Add your website to your profile and then your profile on your website as a regular HTML anchor link with `rel="me"` and you're done.
@jleedev yeah I guess I'm curious as to what the "processor" is here. the implementations I've seen have all been just throwing JSON together as you would normally or parsing it normally with hard-coded rules. I haven't seen an implementation where the context gets consulted, but I'm also not well versed in this technology.
@darius if this is annoying LMK and I will take you off these mentions