huh, actually, the ideal way to handle that approval would be to use rel="me", like i was recommending glitchsoc start supporting? if you can put rel="me" links into your profile, you can link together all your masto profiles in a way that's programmatically verifiable, /and/ link non-masto profiles as well?? nice

heck, masto could even provide built-in rel="me" verification? just like this userscript http://www.kevinmarks.com/distributed-verify.html that would rule