Add Rel=me to the authors url on listed sites

[cubicgarden]

Adding rel=me on the hyperlink going to a site indicates that its destination represents the same person or entity as the current page. Associating a listed page with a certain person and its a key building-block of web-sign-in and IndieAuth. indieauth.com uses rel=me links to enable signing into websites such as IndieWeb.org.

Its simply

<a class="author-link item link" href="http://www.cubicgarden.com" target="_blank">
http://www.cubicgarden.com
</a>

to

<a class="author-link item link" href="http://www.cubicgarden.com" target="_blank" rel="me">
http://www.cubicgarden.com
</a>

[moughxyz]

I'm not seeing consensus on this topic. Search results are really sparse. It looks like it was a proposed standard but never gained steam? Also, does this have negative implications given a user can enter whatever value they want for their custom url, especially a url that doesn't actually belong to them but someone else?

[jalcine]

I'm not seeing consensus on this topic. Search results are really sparse. It looks like it was a proposed standard but never gained steam?

It has a lot of use in the IndieWeb community and bridges to those who use platforms like Wordpress and what not.

Also, does this have negative implications given a user can enter whatever value they want for their custom url, especially a url that doesn't actually belong to them but someone else?

There's a verification step for that using identifiers like rel=me - platforms like GitHub expose this so you can use it to prove one's identity on the Web.

[cubicgarden]

It would need to be both ways...

Have a look at these about bidirectional verification https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/2948 https://wiki.zegnat.net/media/the-real-deal-about-rel-me.html http://www.kevinmarks.com/distributed-verify.html https://indieweb.org/rel-me

[mattieb]

Mastodon also uses it in your profile. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/#verification