Earlier today Mastodon 4.3.0 was released and added few nice feature. Among others they added something that is called Author attribution. It adds a small tag with link to your profile when link from your site is shared.
Robb wrote about how you can add attribution to your own website.
In short:
- Add new meta tag
fediverse:creatorinto head of your page for example<meta name="fediverse:creator" content="@may@social.lol" /> - Then go to your mastodon instance profile, click Edit profile then Verification
- Scroll down to Author attribution and put there domain of your blog(s).1
You are done. Now you can try to link something from your own blog. Like I did with this post.
This is a security feature that protects you if someone tries to link something in your name from a site that does not belong to you. And could potentially damage your online presence. ↩︎