Testing the fediverse:creator meta tag on my blog.

Michael Stanclift

@stefan also shows up here at vmst.io

Stefan Bohacek

@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.

Ewald

@stefan Nice feature but I am somewhat confused: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/07/highlighting-journalism-on-mastodon/ mentions "<meta name="fediverse:creator" content="@Gargron" />" but https://joinmastodon.notion.site/New-fediverse-creator-tag-075af42913394754b515ebcaa3c56371 mentions something slightly different: "<meta property="fediverse:creator" content="username@domain" />". I can only assume both work?

Also, looking at the W3C specs for the HTML meta tag (https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_meta.asp) the trailing slash is clearly omitted, so the examples provided are not in line with HTML specs.

Stefan Bohacek

@elieuw @Gargron Yes, both formats will work.

Stefano Volpe

@stefan @vmstan

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

Stefan Bohacek

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

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

Highlighting journalism on Mastodon

Today we're launching a new feature that will highlight writers and journalists that are active on the fediverse when their articles are being shared.

Mastodon Blog (blog.joinmastodon.org)

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!

Stefano Volpe

@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 Bohacek

@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!)

Andy Piper

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

Stefano Volpe

@andypiper @stefan @vmstan
nice, thanks. So is it like, you just add the website's domain to one of your 4 custom fields? Or nightly has a completely new section in the settings?

Stefan Bohacek

@foxy @andypiper @vmstan There's a new setting in the latest beta version, on the settings/verification page.

Here's what it looks like: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/113153779541654964

Beko Pharm

@stefan I can't seem to get this to work for any of my sites Wonder what I'm missing. Mastodon is v4.3.0 and I added my sites to this option but I don't think this helps when the first creator tag found shows my AP user _from the blog_.

Stefan Bohacek

@bekopharm Ah, are you using the ActivityPub WordPress plugin? And the plugin adds the fediverse:creator meta tag?

I only really see one instance of this tag, unless you just removed it?

Also, is it possible that the articles have been shared on Mastodon before you made this change?

The information about the link would be cached now, so you'd need to either publish a new article, or wait for up to two weeks before the cache resets.